[ApplegateRanch]

Learn one thing, and learn it well:

Education is what you get sitting in a classroom reviewing & reguritating;

LEARNING is what you do on your own, and never, ever let on about, until you can get paid rather than penalized for it.

[blackeagle]

very interesting advice, and very true. ive never been good at regurgitating facts, always thought its held me back being on a strict lesson plan. never have i once had a teacher that actually taught me anything useful, the basic math skills, writing and spelling was all self taught, might be easy to see. heh. back in the early grades i was smarter than most students, i was ridiculed and made fun of and had to dumb down my thought path to be understood by my peers. and this has left me with dismal grades and a careless attitude about my schooling

[Myrddin]

LEARNING is what you do on your own, and never, ever let on about, until you can get paid rather than penalized for it.

Exactly right. Amazon and Barnes & Noble have converted a significant portion of my earnings into books. That's is why I earn a pretty decent living as a computer scientist and electrical engineer. A tolerable situation considering my undegraduate degree is in molecular biology.

I tested my understanding of electronics and regulations at the FCC office. Extra Class amateur radio license, First Class Radiotelephone license and a RADAR endorsements.

The FAA office was pleased to test my mastery of the Jeppsen Flight Training manual. I just read it on the San Diego trolley on the way into work each morning. Scored 100%. My flight instructor was happy with that. He was getting paid with the money I earned teaching school in the evenings...after putting in a full day at work as a central office equipment engineer for PacBell.

Being employed in my current capacity means a continuous addition of books on the latest technologies. I have to train myself to do the latest technologies so that my company can bid that skillset against a future contract. It is an investment in a continuing successful future. If you stop learning, you soon become an unemployable dinosaur.