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From: Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net>
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Subject: Re: Job Offer
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 12:07:11 -0400
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On 3/17/2025 10:30 AM, AMuzi wrote:
> On 3/16/2025 10:01 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>> On 3/16/2025 4:28 PM, Catrike Ryder wrote:
>>>
>>> Education isn't an accomplishment, it's a tool.
>>
>> It's both. Education can't be simply given to a person. It can be 
>> greatly helped by a competent teacher, but the person still has to 
>> work to achieve it. Doing that successfully is an accomplishment.
>>
>> What's odd is that this discussion group has a few denizens who think 
>> they can accomplish just as much without that tool.
>>
>> In modern parlance, they actually are the tools.
>>
> 
> I don't think it's binary or Manichean.  That is, both or all can be 
> true in different examples.
> 
> Examples abound of both autodidacts with gaping holes in their 
> repertoire (me) and others who accomplished much from the same 
> background (Franklin).

Benjamin Franklin was brilliant. It's been pointed out that his science 
accomplishments alone would have won Nobel Prizes had they existed.

But any modern American is a fool if he says "Franklin was great and he 
learned it all himself. So I don't need no schooling."

-- 
- Frank Krygowski