Education

[Squag1]

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"The problem some people today, they are educated beyond their intelligence"

"There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in"
Will Rogers

".....it makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook"
H. D. Thoreau

"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students"
John Chardi

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten"
B.F. Skinner

 

[Cougar377]

Quote unknown person
"The problem some people today, they are educated beyond their intelligence"

"There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in"
Will Rogers

".....it makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook"
H. D. Thoreau

"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students"
John Chardi

"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten"
B.F. Skinner

UPDATED: "A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students, except their grant money".

 

[Jaws]

A university is what a college becomes when the students think they know everything but in reality know little apart from their chosen subject

 

[derek kelly]

A University is a place where Mum & Dad think they are funding Junior to become a Doctor but he failed to tell them that involved too much hard work so he’s now studying photography.

 

[Minkey]

I attended a Trent Polytechnic to study for my HNC and now I find it is a university do you think they would reissue my cert with Trent University on it

 

[ianrobbo1]

Many are often promoted via the Peter principle.

 

[ogr1]

A University is a place where Mum & Dad think they are funding Junior to become a Doctor but he failed to tell them that involved too much hard work so he’s now studying photography.

Now't wrong with photography, i mean real cameras dslr's, not this media bullshit point and shoot yer phone, totally alien to a real photographer.

 

[Dickiebird]

I attended a Trent Polytechnic to study for my HNC and now I find it is a university do you think they would reissue my cert with Trent University on it

My daughter got her degree there in the late eighties , so its been Trent University for a fair number of years now.

 

[derek kelly]

Nvq’s are now classed as Diplomas apparently.