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From: Catrike Ryder <Soloman@old.bikers.org>
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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2024 11:36:14 -0400
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On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 10:27:55 -0400, Zen Cycle <funkmaster@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>On 8/20/2024 9:17 AM, floriduh dumbass wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 07:49:40 -0500, AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 8/20/2024 4:04 AM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 19 Aug 2024 21:13:16 -0400, Frank Krygowski
>>>> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 8/19/2024 12:19 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <chuckle> I've yet to see any of your "accomplishments"I'd have any
>>>>>> interest in doing that I haven't already done.
>>>>>
>>>>> You've seen some evidence, posted by others, of a few of my
>>>>> accomplishments. Saying you'd have no interest in them is a cheap
>>>>> argument, like bragging "I would have won that race, but I didn't want to."
>>>>>
>>>>> To mention _just_ the few of my accomplishments that have already been
>>>>> linked to here by others:
>>>>>
>>>>> You'd have no chance of becoming a licensed Professional Engineer, nor
>>>>> doing the education, professional work, and passing the exhaustive
>>>>> testing needed to get that license. Pretending disinterest is irrelevant.
>>>>
>>>> Anybody can get an education. It's a tool, not an accomplishment.
>>>
>>> -snip much-
>>>
>>> That is a true and important point.
>>>
>>> The formal education racket is not for everyone, but
>>> education is nearly free, requiring only time, diligence and
>>> access to a few used book stores.
>> 
>> Krygowski is right when he says I could never be a college professor
>> because I have no patience for people who say, "Teach me what you
>> think I should know," rather than "this is what I want to know, help
>> me to learn it."
>> 
>> Similarly, I walked away from college (so very glad that I did)
>
>not nearly as glad as they were

At this point in his life, I suspect that there's very little chance
that Junior will ever begin acting like an adult...

>> because they told me they were going to teach me what *they* thought I
>> should know.
>
>that's what happens when you sign up for a course on any given subject, 
>dumbass.

Yes, exactly, Child, and that's why I stopped signing up for their
courses and began pursuing my education on my own, which led
eventually to a successful career, all the time supporting myself
(nice 3 br, 2 bath home in the suburbs) and having sole custody and
providing 100% support of my two kids. That was, of course, only the
beginning.