Re: Replacing Delphi developers

From: AlanGLLoyd (alanglloyd_at_aol.com)
Date: 12/04/03 

Date: 04 Dec 2003 06:49:46 GMT

In article <2mwzb.38495$aT.27714@news-server.bigpond.net.au>, "David Reeve"
<dree4456@big-pond.net.au> writes:

>Experience, funnily enough, can only be
>gained with age, not from sitting in lectures

That is a tautology, because activity takes time, but knowledge is a different
matter, and if one refuses to accept the knowledge that others have discovered,
then one is condemned to make their mistakes too.

An autodidact is not always a professional, he may be just a quick-thinking
pragmatic amateur. The essential to learning is understanding and facility with
the basic concepts of the subject. These come most readily from accepting (with
questioning - or even _by_ questioning) what others have discovered. Hence
"learning must be fun" and "put a child in a learning environment and he will
learn" are some of the most evil phrases suckered onto a modernising generation
by shallow-thinking educationalists.

Alan Lloyd
alanglloyd@aol.com

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