[ILUG] College

[John Allen]

962264N at knotes.kodak.com wrote:

> From: Fergal Moran
> >> Well I have an BA.Mod and a MSc, both in computer science
> >> and no I could not do my job without at least the Bachelor's
> >> degree.
> >
>
> >Elucidate please, what would prevent you from doing your job
> >without at least a BS.
> >I failed the Leaving Cert, never went to College, yet am capable
> >of developing using many languages, and on many platforms.
>
> Depends on the type of person that you are really.  I personally would
> never had the discipline to teach myself everything I learned at college in
> my own time and therefore could not be doing the job I am doing unless I
> had my degree.  And I would presume that the opposite is true for a lot of
> people also.
>
> .F.
>

Ah a rational voice.

In educationn, as in a lot of other areas of life, once size does not
fit all.

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