Re: Physics 1

On Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:24:12 -0500, jmfbahciv wrote:

Lofty Goat wrote:
"Ben Newsam" <ben.newsam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
No wonder the world is going to the dogs.

On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 11:38:24 +0000, K. Bunny wrote:
I blame the parents.

You're right, but what the hell do we do about it?

Where I live, engineers and scientists are paid in peanuts,

Not really. You've just demonstrated why there is a perceptual problem.

and parents
quite understandably want their kids to do well for themselves.

Define well. Do you also think that a million for income is doing well?


Something is terribly wrong with this picture.

Yep. and you have the same problem.

/BAH

"Paid in peanuts" is a euphemism. The scientific, engineering and
technical people I know, and they are legion, are paid less than many
others with less knowledge but better verbal skills or better unions.

As for parents wanting their children to do well, their definitions are
all subjective and all vary. However, the net effect of that is pretty
reliably that they don't encourage their children to study science.

As for your placing this problem at my feet, frankly I'm baffled. I've
always said we'd be better off with more scientists and engineers, and
fewer lawyers and MBAs.

-- RLW
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