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Re: Forbes Commentary.... WTF ? - $tevie - 05-30-2012
Chakravartin wrote: Q: How do you arrive at the unified field theory?
A: A well-documented system describing processes by which quality is optimized, minimizing opportunities for error and promoting excellence!
Q: What's the best way to bathe a cat?
A: A well-documented system describing processes by which quality is optimized, minimizing opportunities for error and promoting excellence!
That is exactly how my boss speaks. 8-)
Re: Forbes Commentary.... WTF ? - hal - 05-30-2012
you poor girl... if I ever heard anyone talking about 'promoting excellence', I'd be forced to punch them in the mouth!
Re: Forbes Commentary.... WTF ? - $tevie - 05-30-2012
Oh, we also talk about engaging our audience, and robust web sites. It's just delightful.
Re: Forbes Commentary.... WTF ? - Spock - 05-30-2012
You know that Mittens is an MBA, don't you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_image_of_Mitt_Romney
Re: Forbes Commentary.... WTF ? - mrbigstuff - 05-30-2012
$tevie wrote:
Oh, we also talk about engaging our audience, and robust web sites. It's just delightful.
oh, now you went and made me log in to comment.
the other day I had a conversation about "activating this public space" so that the "building entrances could talk to one another."
I had all I could not to burst out laughing or punch the dude.
Re: Forbes Commentary.... WTF ? - $tevie - 05-30-2012
mrbigstuff wrote:
the other day I had a conversation about "activating this public space" so that the "building entrances could talk to one another."
:jest:
Re: Forbes Commentary.... WTF ? - Lux Interior - 05-30-2012
$tevie wrote:
Oh, we also talk about engaging our audience, and robust web sites. It's just delightful.
What you need to do is leverage your synergy in order to maximize the harmony between your long term goals and your short term adversities.
Re: Forbes Commentary.... WTF ? - DRR - 06-06-2012
No one is marginalizing the humanities but students are not investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in their education so they can learn the intricacies of Kant vs. Hume. They're investing that money so they can get a job doing something they enjoy, make some money to pay back that education, and then hopefully make some more to live on.
An education is always available to those seeking it. 99% of college-goers are not seeking education. They're seeking employment and are using college as a means to an end. Colleges need to adapt.
The best plan would be to eliminate the majors but still force students to take a variety of courses. 9 credit hours over school year in the humanities. I think that would be a good thing and produces a more well rounded, more well educated, candidate in the end.
I had a philosophy class in college; I was in there with a great, engaging philosophy professor and a number of young philosophy majors. I'll never forget when he told the class, speaking primarily to the philosophy majors, that they only job you can get as a philosophy major is being a philosophy teacher because none of the philosophy companies are hiring right now. He presented it as a joke and the class laughed, but there's a lot of truth in it.
Re: Forbes Commentary.... WTF ? - $tevie - 06-06-2012
My brother graduated with a BS in history, but has since gone on to be a Master of Radiological Sciences or whatever the heck he is. But he is a very interesting, well-rounded Master of Radiological Sciences. :-)