From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 27 9:20:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 059C3154EE for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 09:20:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA05406; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 12:19:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 12:19:50 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Hovey To: Edward Kovarski Cc: Majid Almassari , Danny , W Gerald Hicks , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD certification In-Reply-To: <87iu0f30hw.fsf@nyctereutes.digitalized.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 27 Jan 2000, Edward Kovarski wrote: > Majid Almassari writes: > > > > >From: W Gerald Hicks > > > I know quite a few rather clueless people holding multiple > > > certifications; they aren't necessarily any assurance that > > > someone knows what they are doing. > > > > True, but on the other side of the house you got a number of seasoned what > > so called Network Engineers with xx years of experience lack that solid > > analytical systematic approach of problem solving as soon something deviates > > You are assuming however that an educational process is going to instill the > required analytical skills. Many are quite happy being spoon-fed information > which they then regurgitate. > Perhaps instead of concentrating on specifics, like FreeBSD, it would be best > to consider a more open approach such as a BSD Unix certification which would > entail all flavours. > Short classes on anything (like a 1 or 2 week cert jobby) do little to ones way of thinking. What I look for are items in their long term education (ie college) like logic/philosophy and/or math that teach how to think and analyze. Without a solid foundation in thought, anything else is built on sand. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message