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   Scott Dorsey to Evelyn C. Leeper   
   Re: Four picnics in three locations on t   
   01 Oct 25 14:58:02   
   
   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   Evelyn C. Leeper  wrote:   
   >   
   >I am reminded of a friend who was explaining why he didn't know   
   >something one would learn in a world history course (maybe about the   
   >Protestant Reformation or something), and said it was because he went to   
   >a trade school. When asked what school it was, he said, "MIT."   
      
   MIT used to do a somewhat abbreviated version of the Great Books program,   
   but that kind of ended with WWII, I think.   
      
   In four years you can't really teach someone to be a good engineer, you   
   can only teach them the things they need to know in order to learn to be   
   a good engineer.  There's not much time to teach them the things they need   
   to know to be a good person.   
   --scott   
   --   
   "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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