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Subject:Re: TW, education and necessities From:Stephen Victor <svictor -at- HOUSTON -dot- GEOQUEST -dot- SLB -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 10 Dec 1996 16:36:25 -0600
> In my experience, a college degree is generally required by someone who says
> "I had to endure four years of it, so by gum *you* do, too." There is
> absolutely nothing, zip, zilch, zero, that is learned at college that cannot
> also be learned elsewhere. Period. Do your learning where and when you do it
> best. Anything else is ego-boo.
So we can take it you honed your writing skills without the assistance of
higher education?
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Stephen P. Victor Phone: (713) 513-2552
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