RE: Information Finding Championship - Season 1 : Round 12 entry WATER and VIBRATIONAL FREQUENCY

[wizardave]

haha

If our universities spent time studying these types of technologies,

• instead of what the grant writers tell them too
  • there would be earth shattering breakthroughs
    • and the world would be a better place...

Comments

[amariespeaks]

SERIOUSLY!! the answers are right in front of our faces but people are too busy on their cell phones to notice or distracted by "the News" lol

[wizardave]

absolutely

[plushzilla]

Universities are not the learning institutions that they used to be. Most of them are basically businesses that make money from certification and not education. The fact that people don't ask 'why' nearly as much as they used to is a pretty good sign of education becoming a place to go and learn what to do and not why you are doing something...

[wizardave]

Absolutely true!

• The science departments are mainly funded through grants.
  • These grants stipulate what is to be "studied" and the expected results.
    • Buck "the system"... no money for you...

My wife is a licensed cosmetology instructor. (for beauticians)

• There is a local "college" that teaches those kids how to pass the exam.
  • Unfortunately, most are not taught how to cut hair!
    • What good is a license if you cannot cut hair?!?!?!?

[plushzilla]

So the exam doesn't involve cutting hair??? I heard something similar in Australia where they removed the apprenticeship from some of the trades like cooking and turned it into a course. So now there are people who have passed the exam but can't tell one vegetable from the other or figure out which spice is which :D

I have done a one-day barista course myself, and nothing teaches you how to make coffee like experience and enjoyment of the beverage, so if you get headaches from smelling coffee like me then nothing is really going to help you make a good cup of coffee :p

[wizardave]

It's a multiple choice test.

• they are required ?xx? hours of "working on the floor" going through school.
  • Unfortunately, some colleges don't actually teach them how to properly cut hair (which I consider is more of an art than science).
    • They do usually get fairly adequate training about coloring hair, perms and such.
      But, they will likely learn more from the companies that sell those products, once they get out in the real world...

I went through a 4 year apprenticeship to become a journeyman lineman.

• even that doesn't guarantee you learn everything you need to know.
  • I worked for a small town, so didn't get hands on experience of a lot of things apprentices do in larger towns or working for contract companies.

BTW I only drink about 2 pots of coffee a day...