[TriLUG] OT: Education

[Marc M]

I agree with Jon. It seems that there is too much of a focus on 'doing the
right thing' to make money, such as getting an MBA degree or something like
that, rather than innovation. The old 'I got mine therefore I am entitled to
(fill in the blank)' mentality.

But no one can really teach innovation can they? Also entrepreneurship takes
courage - something rarely talked about and even rarely mentioned in
government schools at any level.

Furthermore since classes of politicians have careers based upon class
warfare -- distinctions of what wealth is, versus what income is, are
generally lost on many people. Many of us truly believe that we are
dependent upon someone else to 'give' us a job and therefore our quality of
life, and there are no other options other than that. Many people hate 'the
rich' not realizing what those people provide everyone economically in one
way or another.

I saw a jeep with a Who is John Galt? bumper sticker last week and the
Canadian license plate read 'ACQUIRED'. It spoke volumes to me.

Cheers,
Marc





On 23 Sep 2005 20:56:17 -0400, Jon Carnes <jonc at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>
> I think it clearly shows that those folks who most willing and anxious
> to work hard don't have time to spend learning "old ideas" in school.
> They are too busy inventing their own light bulbs.
>
> ... And they have learned the secret that success is built on the
> shoulders of thousands of attempts (not thousands of books read).
>
> School is a very traditional way of learning, but the entrepreneur
> doesn't have the patience for that pace, and the knowledge they want to
> learn is more rapidly gained by doing.
>
> Yoda was wrong. There is only doing.
>
> Jon
>
> On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 16:01, Wing D Lizard wrote:
> > echo
> >
> > >I guess this means dropping out is an extremely high risk activity,
> with the potential ..
> > >
> > | sed -e s/"dropping out"/"playing the lottery"/
> >
> >
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