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Other routes to an expanded mind
Why
don't you climb down off your high horse, Bill?
My
grandfather, Elmer Dukelow, had an eighth grade education. His father said
that he was going to be a farmer and didn't need any more schooling than
that. My Grandmother, Jeanette, was raised on a ranch on the Staked Plains
of Eastern New Mexico. She went to "college" -- a secondary level
finishing school in Mexico, Missouri -- and taught in a one-room schoolhouse
outside Clayton, New Mexico for a few years before she married
Grandfather.
When I
was growing up, my Grandparent's house was filled with books, from a set of
Britannica damaged in the 1929 flood to literary classics to popular expositions
of what was then cutting edge science to many books on Amerindian history and
anthropology. The dozen or so books I inherited from his library and the
lovely bookcase/secretary are among my treasures.
Among
my Father and his six siblings are three engineers, a printer, two nurses, and a
homemaker, all well-educated and thoughtful.
The
famous aphorist, Eric Hoffer, is another example that comes to
mind.
Best
regards.
Jim
Dukelow
Pacific Northwest National
Laboratories
Richland, WA
These
comments are mine and have not been reviewed and/or approved by my management or
by the U.S. Department of Energy.
For example ?
The opinions expressed are strictly mine.
It's not about dose, it's about
trust.
Curies forever.
Bill Lipton
liptonw@dteenergy.com
john grant wrote:
KDA2921@AOL.COM wrote:
In a
message dated 1/23/2003 8:29:34 PM Mountain Standard Time, radiation@cox.net
writes:
. I think it is
a travesty that these experienced HP's ( of which I am) with years of on
the job experience are not allowed to become CHP's just because (in most
cases) they don't have a useless piece of paper that taught them nothing
about HP hanging on the wall ( no offence to my colleagues who have
this).
Mr. Davis,
It is indeed a
travesty that you hold higher education in such low regard. The
acedemic experience is one that expands the mind, feeds the soul, and opens
the one's life to a broader array of views and opinions. I applaud the
AAHP and the ABHP for continuing to require the minimum of a BS to sit for
the exam.
There are many other routes to
an expanded mind, a well fed soul and broaded view.
John Grant