How educated is OTC?!?

[Raven]

I'm about to restart my MSc in Computer Games Sofware Programming in February after my run in with a car and concrete a couple of years back.

 

[ClaireBear]

Bachelor of Teacher Education

Cool!

I'm a Bachelor of Primary Education with qualified teacher status!!!!!

*CB has a new friend!*

Here in Blighty people are being forced into tertiary ed (16-18) and higher ed (18 and beyond) after compulsory education until 16 simply to keep the unemployment stats down...

People who don't know their arse from their elbow are doing degrees in "media" and "dance" "brewery studies" "communication studies" etc etc etc in piss pot one time Polytechnics not real red brick or the REAL original unis (Oxbridge, Durham, Edinbrugh, st Andrews)

Being educated is no guarantee of employment here... in fact there is talk in jest on the education forums I frequent of a dgree being a means of weedling out Mcdonald's applicants!!!!!!!!!

 

[BeardofPants]

And what exactly is WRONG with getting an education in a polytechnic? Academic snobbery is as bad as going to university to "get a job" instead of an education, as far as I'm concerned. An education is still an education, regardless of where you get it. It can be from an ivory tower university, a polytechnic, and institute of technology, or from life-experience.

 

[A.B.Normal]

And what exactly is WRONG with getting an education in a polytechnic? Academic snobbery is as bad as going to university to "get a job" instead of an education, as far as I'm concerned. An education is still an education, regardless of where you get it. It can be from an ivory tower university, a polytechnic, and institute of technology, or from life-experience.

 

[Winky]

Bill Gates
Michael Dell
Steve Jobs

all were college drop-outs were they not?

 

[Mirlyn]

Bill Gates
Michael Dell
Steve Jobs

all were college drop-outs were they not?

They were, but it doesn't make the reverse true.

 

[kuulani]

Masters in Education here.

 

[unclehobart]

Bill Gates
Michael Dell
Steve Jobs

all were college drop-outs were they not?

So was Pol Pot.

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

An education is still an education, regardless of where you get it. It can be from an ivory tower university, a polytechnic, and institute of technology, or from life-experience.

So very true.

One of my professors told an interesting story one day. This gentleman gave two exams all semester. He timed it so that the grades from the first would be distributed in time for students to drop the class if they desired.

The day after drop/add deadline passed, our class size had gone from about 90 down to maybe 35 or so. He entered the room, stood at his podium, and related the following tale which I have never forgotten:


At Harvard Medical School's graduation ceremonies, sudents do not cross the stage in alphabetical order; they do so in order of grade point average from highest to lowest. What do they call the last person to cross that stage?





They call him doctor. The same as the first to cross.