{"id":674,"date":"2008-05-13T15:16:12","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T22:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valianthosting.ca\/clients\/daemon\/?p=674"},"modified":"2008-05-13T20:27:08","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T03:27:08","slug":"bah-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/?p=674","title":{"rendered":"bah!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite often I sit around ranting about how annoying it is to have to return to university in pursuit of a degree.  Don&#8217;t get me wrong &#8211; I love learning and spend a significant amount of time digging around in libraries and bookstores reading anything I can get my hands on (based on my sphere of interest).  I&#8217;ve just never been a fan of formal education.  It&#8217;s too constraining.  While you can still follow your own interests on your own time, I find there&#8217;s less room for debate in many courses.  Some (not all) instructors seem to believe that there is only &#8220;one true way&#8221; of interpreting information.  Their way.  As someone who likes to sit back and review multiple sides to the story and multiple layers of context, I find this increasingly frustrating. Funny, in the corporate world, it made me a good go-to person for risk mitigation strategy development.  In school it makes me the annoying kid at the back of the cyber class contantly asking the prof and fellow students &#8220;&#8230;but what if&#8230;?&#8221;  Oddly enough, I&#8217;m working in an academic environment.  Which means that additional formal education is required to move anywhere within the college.  Which puts me in mind of a very infamous quote.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Might have been the losing side, still <strong>not convinced<\/strong> it was the wrong one.<br \/>\n&#8211; Mal, Firefly<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m off to do my homework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quite often I sit around ranting about how annoying it is to have to return to university in pursuit of a degree. Don&#8217;t get me wrong &#8211; I love learning and spend a significant amount of time digging around in libraries and bookstores reading anything I can get my hands on (based on my sphere [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}