Joe says:
There is nothing you cannot learn on your own through books and study.
That's just false. In pursuing graduate studies I spent a lot of time at national laboratories working with equipment not found in books. Cycling the magnets across their hysteresis curves to tune a mass spectrometer cannot be done by opening a book. Chasing down ground loops to minimize noise in sensitive equipment is an activity that is not best learned by reading about such activities in books. The experiences available to research students and young scientists at national labs are scarcely available in even the most well financed industries. I could have thrown a few wrong switches and burned a million bucks worth of equipment on any given day. I loved it. I just had to be there to get the experience I got and that experience enables my rapid and thorough understanding of client technologies beyond the specifics of my experience.
Who would say to a pilot that one can learn to land a fighter jet on an aircraft carrier deck from a book?
Well you can't learn to use an oscilloscope like it's an integral extension of your senses in a book either.
I can't speak authoritatively on law school, but from what I can tell from the outside looking in is that law schools represent forums where, inter alias, the decorum of the practice of law is indoctrinated and where networks are built. Attracting clients and representing clients requires decorum and networks.
Sometimes I too am baffled that the man won't give ya a chance if ya don't got all the right credentials and know all the right folks ... but Mellencamp said that "when I fight authority, authority always wins!"
On the other hand, Dr. John said "yo edumication ain't no hipper-n-what you unerstand!"
What? ... you thought I was going to quote Einstein ?
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