Comments on: Education vs Experience

By: Friction and Trials @ Lacqui's Log

Friction and Trials @ Lacqui's Log — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:11:38 +0000

[...] never become a jewel, a person sitting permanently on the couch will never mature. We must gain experience in order to grow, and this experience comes through our trials and difficulties. var [...]

By: Planning fully @ Lacqui's Log

Planning fully @ Lacqui's Log — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:03:08 +0000

[...] of planning before doing. However, there are times that planning becomes procrastination. You can never know every possibility, so there is a time that you have to look up from the plans and do [...]

By: Imagination vs Knowledge @ Lacqui's Log

Imagination vs Knowledge @ Lacqui's Log — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:08:48 +0000

[...] ties into a previous post of mine, where I stated that education doesn’t cover every possibility. Well, neither does [...]

By: lacqui

lacqui — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 02:37:17 +0000

Ah Renee, always direct and to the point

The best part of it is that, in order to get onto this course, we had to have at least a year onboard ship. Which means that he should have experienced thinking on his feet and not knowing all the answers.

Bonus points for the fact that he’s been deployed to the Gulf. You’d think that spending half a year in a war zone would wake him to reality.

By: Renee

Renee — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 02:01:13 +0000

Um, yeah, that guy would be what we like to call “wrong.” Working in tech/eng education for years I can positively state that education without practice is worthless. Profs try to build in practice and experience in the classroom, but until you actually do something (a few times) in the field, you can’t really be said to have learned it. Which is why there’s such a thing as a “P.Eng,” and not just an Engineering degree – five years of professional practice is required in engineering to be considered a practicing (get it?) engineer. Tech is no different, pedagogically.

So there =)