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   Steve Bellovin (stevebellovin@mastodon.lawprofs.org)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 02:40:18 JST Steve Bellovin

   Read this thread! The older I get, the less I value a narrow education. You don't know where your career or interests are going to lead you. Learn to *think*, and learn what others before have thought and thought/taught about thinking.
   https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/110390739226017146

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 02:41:06 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • George Dinwiddie

     @SteveBellovin @gdinwiddie
     I just gave our regular Fred Brooks reading assignment to class yesterday. RIP.

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     Steve Bellovin (stevebellovin@mastodon.lawprofs.org)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 02:41:16 JST Steve Bellovin

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     @gdinwiddie @inthehands At a welcome ceremony for incoming grad students at UNC Chapel Hill when I started, lo these many years ago, Fred Brooks (the founder and then chair of the department) said "You're not here to be educated. You went to college to be educated; you're here to be trained."

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     George Dinwiddie (gdinwiddie@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Apr-2024 02:41:17 JST George Dinwiddie

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     • Paul Cantrell

     @SteveBellovin @inthehands
     YES!

     One of the best decisions I ever made was deciding that going to college was, for me, to get an education rather than to get a job in the future.