[Lowfer] Bad operating practices/XFX update

[Peter Barick]

Hi Ed,
Yes, I feel your pain. I'm taking an electronics course at the
university level as a part-time and not-so-young student.
On the first day last week, our instructor (middle-aged PhD) admonished
the class that NOT reading the text is not an acceptable excuse on
achieving a failing grade. Gulp! Imagine that coming from a prof 30-40
years ago! It's different.

Ya, he said some "students" were not taught to read in HS so they come
in dumb and expect to succeed. Yeeks!

Peter

>>> evp@pacbell.net 01/20/04 10:42AM >>>

>  Instead, the whole test structure today is
dumbed down to inanity and the "technical questions" are trivial.  I
used to serve as a VE but gave it up as the tests got degraded.  Same
thing is happening in the schools.

>  My wife taught senior high for over
25 years but finally gave it up when the "honors class" text books
were
writtin mostly with pictures and words of one syllable!
>>
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>Ed