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OT: Calling all straight F students..., Don't ever give up |
BigD9146gt |
Mar 1 2005, 08:10 PM
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OCD member Group: Members Posts: 376 Joined: 24-January 05 From: Sydney, Australia Member No.: 3,502 Region Association: Australia and New Zealand |
I was never good at homework. I liked being in school learning, just never could remember any of it when the time came to barf it back to the teacher. This is an email my old man sent me, he's a pretty sucessful mechanical engineer who also didn't do all that well in school. Enjoy.
Charles Kettering invented no knock self-starter, diesel locomotive and paint for cars. Intelligent Ignorance: The more education you have the less likely you are to become an inventor. The reason why is this: from the time a kid starts Kindergarten to the time he graduates from college, he will be examined two or three times a year and if he flunks once, he’s out. Now an inventor fails 999 times and if he succeeds once, he’s in. An inventor treats his failures simply as practice shots. He believed a problem was more than willing to be solved provided the researcher remembered who was boss, by which he meant the problem, not himself. The only difference between a problem and a solution, he used to say, is that people understand the solution. Solutions only involve a change in perception, since the solution must have existed all along with the problem itself. A researcher, he argued, was there not to master the problem but to make it give birth to its solution. |
Thorshammer |
Mar 2 2005, 09:34 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 749 Joined: 11-November 03 Member No.: 1,335 |
Some of us are really missing the point! The common denominator to all of this is DRIVE. If you have it you will succeed, either because your too stupid to accept loss/defeat or your just plain stubborn (as I am). Statistically speaking, the numbers don't lie. With a college degree of any type statistics say you will make 1.2 million dollars more than if you do not have one. As for the Pharm companies, probably not a good comparison for workers with or without a degree. To function in that type of a research enviroment, higher enducation is a must. But, take a designer vs Mech Engineer, with many of the new FEA and CAD systems we have these days, the playing field is much more even than it ever was. But, to get hired by a company to do this work is another story. I for one do not have a degree. I have taken many classes at the University. Mostly because I needed the information. My fluids class was the best story though. I did not have the requisite math courses, so when I got into class the Prof called me up and asked me to drop, that I would be wasting my time without the math to perform certain calculations. I asked to stay without a grade, I remember the look on his face, "your wasting my time sir" you know that look. Now I'm not going to say it was easy, and yes I had to buy two math books and get some help from a friend, but I was determined to learn the stuff I needed (I owned a motorcycle suspension company). I got a 91 on the final. The Prof could'nt believe it. So he gave me the grade. Some of you are very right. Education has gone awry in this country. My wife is a High school teacher. She deals with the trials and tribulation every day, biggest problem is a lack of support from the home front. The ones that have support don't need it, they are doing fine in class. The ones that need it, don't get it. My wife has 110 students everyday, at parent teacher conferences she gets 4-10 parents coming in to see her. ? WTF over!? thats not even 10%. The conference session lasts until 9:00pm so it is not a question of time, but will or lack thereof. When I was growing up Parent teacher conferences were like a town meeting, everyone was there. Maybe people see education solely as a right. Not priveledge? No wonder other countries are kicking our ass. Erik Madsen |
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