In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The major problem with professional bodies is precisely their lack of >insistence on a practical demonstration of capability. "Paper MCSEs", >for example, frequently make bad Windows system administrators because >their education has been geared to the acquisition not of practical >skills but of the qualification itself. The medical profession acquits >itself reasonably because it does still require a good amount of >doctoring before qualification. Why are the lawyer jokes not doctor >jokes?
While it may not have the same intensity or duration as medical internship, lawyers are typically required to serve an internship before being permitted to go into independent practice. -- Aahz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "19. A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing." --Alan Perlis -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
