Care Not Speed

[trevj]

My dad had a saying "An engineer with common sense could write his own ticket . " All my working life I have been around engineers, my Dad was right.


I was lucky, I could write exams. Which was good considering my study habits.

You met one with common sense?

Damn. That's HERO material! YOU, for finding one, AND him or her for being it!

LOL!

 

[trevj]

Sucks when they send you home to shave before they will let you back into the class, eh?

Maybe not as much as getting kicked out of Gym Class for having a better mustache than the Teacher... Some of those chicks can be so sensitive...

 

[Chicken lights]

Maybe not as much as getting kicked out of Gym Class for having a better mustache than the Teacher... Some of those chicks can be so sensitive...

I got detention in grade 7 for being late to return after lunch. I walked over to work and lost track of time fixing a chainsaw

 

[Chicken lights]

I have met FAR too many people, including several of my In-Laws, who actively dismissed my intellect, and my opinions, as they put it, "You don't even have a degree!"

One of my more epic responses, when I stated, "You have three degrees, so how come you are so f*cking stupid?"

Didn't buy me any points with the In-laws, but my Father In Law was fairly impressed...

IMO, far too many people that paid for a degree, or several of them, think that they have finished having to learn anything new once they have paper in hand. The folks that understand that they have been handed a path to learning for the rest of their lives, I have less problems with!

So, NOT TO INSULT ANYONE HERE, I agree with this. It's my opinion and I'm allowed one

Generally (not all) I find educated people are usually more obstinate. I find it's a zero sum loop - I'm educated so I know more than you and you're uneducated so your input has no value. I'm saying the same thing you are when you say people say you don't have a degree so what do you know

Yet, those same people can't back up a trailer or swing a hammer or wire a house or...

It's two different worlds, and I don't think there's a right or wrong

The best people, IMO, are the ones who are smart enough to ask questions from the other side, listen to the answers and learn. On either side of the fence

 

[ShawnR]

Exams are tough to write. My wife says it is almost an art form to write a good exam to gauge a student's knowledge of the material. My brother-in-law went to England after finishing his degrees from Queens. I tell people he went to England to teach English to them since his doctorate is in English. Incredibly smart, trivia winner for sure, but day to day stuff...well... But his career is writing exams for schools, based on their needs. He then marks those exams to determine if the student knows the material. I found it interesting that he built a very good career out of designing just exams.

We had a new instructor in college one year. He came from industry, I think, iirc, a controls class. He had us write one test/exam. Almost all of us failed it....we complained that it was almost impossible, so he wrote another one for us. You guessed it, almost everyone got high 90s.....he could not write exams to judge knowledge base.

And some people just panic in an exam. Take them out of that situation, and they know the material very well. But under pressure, mind goes blank. (most of my days, no exam necessary)