Re: ANNOUNCE: Vacant Job Positions

In article <4fsujc$no8_at_remus.reed.edu>, Grant Reaber <greaber_at_reed.edu> wrote: >In article <3120B741.3482_at_crl.com>, john b <jointprd_at_crl.com> wrote:
>Well I guess that's a good summary of one half of the issue :-). First
>of all, a degree is valuable for many reasons that have nothing to do
>with getting and doing a good job; surely you have heard about the
>importance of a broad liberal arts education.

Of course we have all heard about it; the liberal arts professors make sure that we do. Vast numbers of them would be unemployed if their subjects were not required of students attempting degrees in other fields. However, I have never heard an engineers attribute his success or happiness in life to some class in "The Emergence of Western Civilization"; nor have I seen any study that correlates the success or happiness of graduates with the number of humanities courses completed.

>...  Young degreeless programmers are unlikely to know much about the
>more theoretical and abstract ideas of computer science or about the
>history of computer science.

In my experience, young degreed programmers are also unlikely to know much about these things, but perhaps not so unlikely as the undegreed.

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Kevin Cline