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Subject:Re: Certification Redux From:"Wing, Michael J" <mjwing -at- INGR -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 17 Jun 1997 08:46:19 -0500
Someone had the best line during the last go-round on certification. It
is as follows:
>"It (certification) no more makes you a professional than the Cowardly Lion's
>medal made him heroic."
Mike
Michael Wing (mjwing -at- ingr -dot- com)
Principal Technical Writer
Intergraph Corporation; Huntsville, Alabama http://www.ingr.com/iss/products/mapping/
(205) 730-7250
"But examine everything carefully; hold fast to that which is good"
-- Paul (1 TH 5:21)
> That's it? So you can have a warm fuzzy? Your portfolio isn't enough, your
>resume isn't enough, your "powers of persuasion" (whatever n'hell that means)
>aren't enough--so you need to have certification on top of all of that? Why
>wouldn't all those other things be enough? What's wrong?
>
>
>> certificate from my professional peers
>
> Ooh--something I hadn't though of: who certifies the certifiers?
>
>
>
>Regards from beautiful Wisconsin! :)
>
>
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