"ObiWan Kenobi" wrote in message
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"Doug Kanter" wrote in
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"Dan J.S." wrote in message
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Professors are people afraid to face the real world. They like to be
surrounded by job stability and cushy jobs.


OK. When you need surgery, do you want the doctor to tell you he was
taught by a professors in college, or that he just sorta picked up the
skill while watching his dad clean fish?

OK. When you need surgery, do you want the doctor whose education
consisted only of reading and lectures, or the doctor who interned in a
hospital with real live (and real life) patients?

True, but the genius I responded to negated the value of half the people YOU
just mentioned as being part of a good education. He's also assuming that
all professors are simply regurgitating what was taught to them earlier.
True for some, but certainly not all. If the genius thinks otherwise, then
he either never attended college, or attended a lousy one, or was involved
in nothing but sports.