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Subject:RE: A suspected can of worms - knowing the future From:"Dan Glovier" <dglovier -at- edline -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:10:23 -0500
Dock sed:
> Someone (Mark Baker, maybe?) was arguing a month or two ago that "any
> educated person" should have the non-industry-specific skills that
make
> someone a good tech writer. For the minority of students who attend
> college to become educated persons, that is true. For the majority who
> treat universities as trade schools, alas, it is not true.
I told my nephews two things before they went to college:
1. Work at a restaurant as a waiter. Tips are pretty good, and as a
young fella in college, free food is a beautiful, beautiful thing.
2. Take Rhetoric, and if they have multiple levels of it, take them.
This class prepared me for more work and life situations than any other
class I have ever taken.
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