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Subject: Re: curriculum
From: Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 11:15:46 -0800

Neil, John wrote:

Somebody suggested reading a $30 book instead of taking a $3000 course. That
is ridiculous. There is far more to this profession than any book, or series
of books can cover.
Well, as you said, nothing beats real life experience.

However, whether a book can replace a course depends on the person. For a person without the self-discipline, taking the course can provide the necessary discipline to study the material. But a self-disciplined person can follow a self-study guide and get the same results, especially since many courses - at least at the university where I took some night school courses - simply lead the class through self-study guides.

In fact, people can even study a tool without a guide. For example, in a burst of self-application never seen in me before or since, I taught myself FrameMaker by doing a couple of makeovers. When I eventually dared to compare my expertise to other people's, I found my knowledge competent, but idiosyncratic in one or two ways; some of my ways of doing things weren't as useful as other people's, but some were easier and more efficient (at least for me).

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