- I had seen life without an education, noting the difference between those with and without a college education.
- Like my performance in the Navy's electronic program, a de facto bachelors of electrical engineering without the humanities, I was able to go to school without worrying about room and board having both the GI Bill and a state military scholarship.
- My commitment to merit-based education support through public institutions has been shaped by the difference between my high school and college records.
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This is true if you imply that the
gas-guzzlers
of higher
education are first rate. I would have flunked out. As a professor friend
of mine said, David Manning White,
he ceased pursuing higher academic positions when he realized he liked less
and less the people who were hired at such institutions. He said he could
either mono-maniacally focus on PorP, aka, Publish or Perish but actually
Prostitute or Perish, or poly-focus on nurturing a broader field of students.
This is an academic dichotomy akin to the difference between the generalist
who knows somthing about everything or the specialist who knows everything
about nothing. Global
dying is the epithet of the imbalanced, dysfunctional specialists in
ivy-league gas-guzzlers than mom-and-pop high mpg colleges. When one
- In terms of producing the backbone builders of a better world, SIU-E is among many of the first-rate educational institutions.
- For whom I was and what I have become, SIU-E was the optimal fit, a shoe that was neither too big or too small for an optimal run in traveling farther faster as summarized in timism.
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Apparently my academic record at SIU-E was not as good as I have thought,
for
an offer of Timism
to the SIU-E was met with no response. It confirmed my
abdication from academia.
