RE: Thanks everybody

From: <Christopher>
Date: Mon Nov 17 2003 - 10:16:00 EST

>education is supposed to be a distilled infusion of experience (I thought).
>You must have the education in order to assess and act on the experience of
>others. The education is a precursor.

I think of education as structured preparation for putting experience into context. I got a pretty good education--useful fundamentals with a long half life. Fortunately I worked alternate quarters (co-op plan) and also learn a lot about professional practice that I never would have learned from the examples at the back of the chapter. There's so much to the business of engineering--not just the money grubbing, bean-counting aspects--that formal education doesn't even hint at.

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