Hello Sean, On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 23:18:01 -0600 GMT (19/11/02, 12:18 +0700 GMT), Sean wrote:
TF>> What is bad about being a student? > Oh, it's not really bad, otherwise I wouldn't still be at the > university! But the "educational" line in TB! headers has occasionally > caused people to assume that I am of 'college age' - which I am not. Well, I am a student too, so I am certainly of college age. I will be 40 in two months. I do not believe that learning is allowed only up to a certain age (what age would that be anyway). > Even though that's mainly a problem on the part of the person making > the assumption, I wish my e-mail headers wouldn't lead (certain) > people down that path. The assumption that you are actively learning, thus bringing yourself and mindkind forward in the search of knowledge and advancement? What country do you live in that puts some kind of stigma on education? > And of course there's my own personal angst about not being finished > yet ;) Are we ever finished learning? There is so much knowledge in the world right now, it would be impossible for anybody to learn everything. Can we learn everything we want to learn, at the time we want to learn it? Only in an ideal world. If we didn't learn it "then", do we have to have any worries about learning it "now"? Certainly not. The older you get, the more difficult it gets to learn new things, and profs and other people know that you will just have to bring more commitment. We have one student who is 56 years old and one year senior (in studies) to me. He is admired throughout the university. :-) f'up2:tbot -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn. Message reply created with The Bat! 1.62/Beta7 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using an AMD Athlon K7 1.2GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
