Police and Education
Apr 17th 2014, 12:13 am
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Re: Police and Education
Serious question: how do state troopers actually manage to walk more than a few footsteps a minute in their gear? It seems awfully restrictive. Can't imagine British traffic cops wearing such outfits.
Apr 17th 2014, 2:52 am
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Re: Police and Education
As for a serious answer, well they probably get used to carrying all that gear...plus do you actually ever see a statie not in their car? They don't carry that much gear, side arm, vest possibly, cuffs...not much more than a regular cop.
It's the riot gear that I feel sorry about, especially in the hot, humid summer...that can't be fun.
Apr 17th 2014, 3:38 am
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Apr 17th 2014, 8:25 am
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Exactly the point I was making earlier. After 23 years in schools (13 on one side of the classroom and 10 on the other) and 28 years in universities (10 + 18) I think I have a decent idea of what is "educated" and there are plenty of "uneducated" people in universities. I am forever astounded by people I meet who are far more intelligent and knowledgeable than many university students AND faculty.
Apr 17th 2014, 1:20 pm
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Re: Police and Education
The acquisition of a degree in Sociology or Fine Art can make a person totally unemployable !
Apr 17th 2014, 1:23 pm
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Apr 18th 2014, 11:59 am
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Re: Police and Education
This is a strange thread to read for the first time, people quoting posts that aren't there
Quite discombobulating it is, it infers a lack of education on somebody's part.
Somebody appears to have a degree in arrogance.
A degree shows that a person has reached a certain level of book learning. That person then has to learn to apply this learning to real life, if it is indeed, applicable to real life. Lack of a degree does not prove a lack of learning, book or otherwise. I say that because I don't have a degree but I am a Licensed Professional Engineer (a PE is legally qualified to be in full charge of any engineering project in any state in which he or she is licensed).
I made this post from bits and pieces to match the style of the thread.
Quite discombobulating it is, it infers a lack of education on somebody's part. Somebody appears to have a degree in arrogance.
A degree shows that a person has reached a certain level of book learning. That person then has to learn to apply this learning to real life, if it is indeed, applicable to real life. Lack of a degree does not prove a lack of learning, book or otherwise. I say that because I don't have a degree but I am a Licensed Professional Engineer (a PE is legally qualified to be in full charge of any engineering project in any state in which he or she is licensed).
I made this post from bits and pieces to match the style of the thread.
Apr 18th 2014, 12:49 pm
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Re: Police and Education
This is a strange thread to read for the first time, people quoting posts that aren't there Quite discombobulating it is, it infers a lack of education on somebody's part.
Somebody appears to have a degree in arrogance.
A degree shows that a person has reached a certain level of book learning. That person then has to learn to apply this learning to real life, if it is indeed, applicable to real life. Lack of a degree does not prove a lack of learning, book or otherwise. I say that because I don't have a degree but I am a Licensed Professional Engineer (a PE is legally qualified to be in full charge of any engineering project in any state in which he or she is licensed).
I made this post from bits and pieces to match the style of the thread.
Quite discombobulating it is, it infers a lack of education on somebody's part. Somebody appears to have a degree in arrogance.
A degree shows that a person has reached a certain level of book learning. That person then has to learn to apply this learning to real life, if it is indeed, applicable to real life. Lack of a degree does not prove a lack of learning, book or otherwise. I say that because I don't have a degree but I am a Licensed Professional Engineer (a PE is legally qualified to be in full charge of any engineering project in any state in which he or she is licensed).
I made this post from bits and pieces to match the style of the thread.
I think students stopped reading textbooks about 10 or 20 years ago. Seriously. It's now PowerPoint slide learning.[ETA, I wasn't being patronizing, just commenting that students don't/won't read textbooks these days.]
Apr 18th 2014, 1:35 pm
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Re: Police and Education
I was also a bit shocked to discover that their university bookshop sells composite text books, which have a few chapters taken from several different books to tie in with the reading lists - the students don't even have to read whole books! that can't be helping the attention span issue