Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: John B. Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech Subject: Re: Job Offer Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 08:14:16 +0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <4GYAP.668109$_N6e.410994@fx17.iad> <2gbetjt99maeoo86alha9j14uu0cboqsab@4ax.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 02:14:19 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d0f1393ebe53a676be4c2e91a57d2218"; logging-data="3103850"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+r01iolbOfBdDJz9K8aJjeKBKuqKqjYIU=" User-Agent: ForteAgent/7.10.32.1212 Cancel-Lock: sha1:lWtNfhvz3Tej05Dnwsfbp9lm7eE= On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 16:04:28 -0500, AMuzi wrote: >On 3/16/2025 3:05 PM, Jeff Liebermann wrote: >> On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 14:29:33 -0400, Catrike Ryder >> wrote: >> >>> Education is a good thing. It's the schools and the teachers that have >>> become the problem. >> >> In about 1967, while I was a student in college, I overheard an >> (electronics) instructor remark >> "This would be a nice place to work if it weren't for students". >> > >Above other (often valid) criticisms, the modern ( last 40 >years or so) trends of as many or more 'administrative >staff' as instructors tells me it's leaning toward 'racket' >not 'mission'. I've seen the school my father attended in his 1st and maybe 2nd grades, a one room shack, taught, managed and apparently providing living space for a single teacher for grades 1 - 4. Then they sold the farm and moved to town. -- Cheers, John B.