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Forum: Canada
Apr 3rd 2015, 3:11 am
Replies: 224
Views: 15,083
Posted By dbd33

Re: "Moving here for the kids"

I'm with you here. This type of gushing irrelevance:



irritates me greatly. <<<snip>>> If you don't fit the exact social class of the interviewer you cannot interview well in that circumstance....
Forum: Canada
Apr 2nd 2015, 5:54 pm
Replies: 224
Views: 15,083
Posted By dbd33

Re: "Moving here for the kids"

Did any of his stories involve a flute?
Forum: Canada
Apr 2nd 2015, 4:24 pm
Replies: 224
Views: 15,083
Posted By dbd33

Re: "Moving here for the kids"

They're not, they're more in the line of technical training.

The short of that story is that after the first degree (and a couple of years in the far north) the daughter decided she missed the...
Forum: Canada
Apr 2nd 2015, 4:13 pm
Replies: 224
Views: 15,083
Posted By dbd33

Re: "Moving here for the kids"

I doubt that's true. I expect that, on average, every poster has a degree but, upon detailed analysis, Novo and Oink each have loads and many of us have none.
Forum: Canada
Apr 2nd 2015, 3:58 pm
Replies: 224
Views: 15,083
Posted By dbd33

Re: "Moving here for the kids"

A different daughter applied to Hooters. That didn't work because it was to be a part time job, rather than a career, and she could make more money as a lifeguard. The one in question works as a...
Forum: Canada
Apr 2nd 2015, 3:46 pm
Replies: 224
Views: 15,083
Posted By dbd33

Re: "Moving here for the kids"

If they know what their ambitions are at age 18 then great. If not then they should stay in the habit of learning by pursuing something of interest to them (assuming there is something vaguely...
Forum: Canada
Apr 2nd 2015, 3:22 pm
Replies: 224
Views: 15,083
Posted By dbd33

Re: "Moving here for the kids"

Obviously having a degree isn't relevant to one's performance in most jobs. It is, however, necessary in order to get a job in many organisations. It would, I think, be derelict not to arrange for...
Forum: Canada
Apr 2nd 2015, 12:57 am
Replies: 224
Views: 15,083
Posted By dbd33

Re: "Moving here for the kids"

In Canada one can take a degree without a subject. General Studies, or something.

It might make sense to take an undemanding course like that if the objective of being at university was to find a...
Forum: Canada
Mar 30th 2015, 6:39 pm
Replies: 224
Views: 15,083
Posted By dbd33

Re: "Moving here for the kids"

That's why you need one, everyone has a degree and a clean pair trousers for the interview; if you don't have these things you're not in the running. It's not the case that having a degree or clean...
Forum: Canada
Mar 30th 2015, 6:27 pm
Replies: 224
Views: 15,083
Posted By dbd33

Re: "Moving here for the kids"

Huh?

I think people commute to university because they're Asian and that's what Asians do. I don't see how the number of schools could make it more necessary; obviously if the only school is in...
Forum: Canada
Mar 30th 2015, 6:16 pm
Replies: 224
Views: 15,083
Posted By dbd33

Re: "Moving here for the kids"

Which ones do you think have a lot of commuters? I'd guess the UofT and UBC, not the Maritime ones as they're full of students from Ontario.
Forum: Canada
Mar 30th 2015, 5:59 pm
Replies: 224
Views: 15,083
Posted By dbd33

Re: "Moving here for the kids"

They do.
Forum: Canada
Mar 29th 2015, 3:27 am
Replies: 224
Views: 15,083
Posted By dbd33

Re: "Moving here for the kids"

Undergrad, surely? By the time they get to a masters they should own the coffee shop, not serve in it.

I understand your case that a student living with parents will still complete the degree and...
Forum: Canada
Mar 28th 2015, 2:37 pm
Replies: 224
Views: 15,083
Posted By dbd33

Re: "Moving here for the kids"

Growing up. And that means moving out on your own, ideally far from your family, and trying all those things you wouldn't at home. A colleague summed it up quite well, I think, when his daughter...
Forum: Canada
Mar 28th 2015, 4:29 am
Replies: 224
Views: 15,083
Posted By dbd33

Re: "Moving here for the kids"

"living at home with parents and having a car" is not what education should be about.
Forum: Canada
Mar 28th 2015, 4:08 am
Replies: 224
Views: 15,083
Posted By dbd33

Re: "Moving here for the kids"

Not if they're bright. They can apply to George Brown College, move to Toronto and commute to the school by subway. If they're less talented then they can do the same with UBC or Dalhousie and a bus...
Forum: Canada
Mar 26th 2015, 3:22 pm
Replies: 224
Views: 15,083
Posted By dbd33

Re: "Moving here for the kids"

Education is not about financial reward but about the furtherance of mankind's understanding of the world. It may be that an individual is better recompensed for hod carrying than for curing cancer,...
Forum: Canada
Mar 26th 2015, 1:19 am
Replies: 224
Views: 15,083
Posted By dbd33

Re: "Moving here for the kids"

If you live in BC and your children attend university in Ontario, they'll be hit with out-of-State fees for, at least, the first year. That's not as bad as the international fees but it is expensive.
Forum: Canada
Mar 25th 2015, 6:29 pm
Replies: 224
Views: 15,083
Posted By dbd33

Re: "Moving here for the kids"

Agreement is cause for concern, yes, you must be getting curmudgeonly.


My children have largely ignored cars, they can drive but seem to have no interest in having a car. One used a Ducatti for...
Forum: Canada
Mar 25th 2015, 4:12 pm
Replies: 224
Views: 15,083
Posted By dbd33

Re: "Moving here for the kids"

A car, it seems to me, is a ludicrous luxury for a student. Surely Greyhound will do for the annual trek home and a bicycle will do for around the school.
Forum: Canada
Mar 24th 2015, 5:56 pm
Replies: 224
Views: 15,083
Posted By dbd33

Re: "Moving here for the kids"

Every week, when you post that, you make me reconsider my argument that education is unequivocally a good thing. Surely you could have been inarticulate and parochial without taking up space in those...
Forum: Canada
Mar 24th 2015, 5:51 pm
Replies: 224
Views: 15,083
Posted By dbd33

Re: "Moving here for the kids"

Students in Canada have the choice of schools in Canada or the US. Other places as well but commonly they'll go to a school in one of those countries. For example, a colleague's children went to...
Forum: Canada
Mar 20th 2015, 3:57 pm
Replies: 224
Views: 15,083
Posted By dbd33

Re: "Moving here for the kids"

I should say that I funded one degree each and then only the tuition, some books and very limited beer money. The students still had to work to live. The subsequent degrees were self funded (I don't...
Forum: Canada
Mar 20th 2015, 12:52 am
Replies: 224
Views: 15,083
Posted By dbd33

Re: "Moving here for the kids"

I think they should have. It seems to me that education is valuable for its own sake. Ideally society should educate its citizens until their heads are full; rationing education by academic criteria...
Forum: Canada
Mar 19th 2015, 7:08 pm
Replies: 224
Views: 15,083
Posted By dbd33

Re: "Moving here for the kids"

The acquistion of any skill may stimulate intellectual curiousity so being able to write is of potential benefit there. The lack of skills commonly held is a social disadvantage so illiteracy, albeit...
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