Re: Re: Re: Airline Pilot to Ag Mechanic???

Posted by Wayne on December 25, 2003 at 00:16:26 from (152.163.253.66):

In Reply to: Re: Re: Airline Pilot to Ag Mechanic??? posted by buickanddeere on December 23, 2003 at 21:25:39:

I didn't mean that everybody that has an education is an idiot. What I was expressing is that an education is only as good as the person who has it. Anybody can learn anything if they put their mind to it, it's a matter of having a natural ability to do a specific type of job as well as having the ability to apply what they learn in school and what is learned through OJT and meld it all together into something useful. Like you said if xyz doesn't work then many people just want to throw parts at it until it does work. That's what I see everyday from the colledge educated crowd. They don't have the real world experience to know that you can't learn everything in a classroom, but still think they know everything. If it isn't something they learned in a book, their lost, and it often seems like they have forgetten they have a mind to use as a troubleshooting tool also. That is a classic sign of an educated idiot. You don't have to have a formal colledge education to have the natural ability to learn and do a job and be good at it, and having a formal education with some type of degree to go with it is never going to be a suitable replacement for real world experience. I see companies everyday hire a newly graduated man to a position over an experienced longtime employee and I've seen it bite them in the a$$ too, especially in the equipment industry.--- We saw this scenerio on a crane we totally rebuilt 2 years ago. The educated, desk bound executive decided he was gonna make all the purchasing decisions regardless of the input from the field supervisors. He decided to save several thousand dollars and buy this new grease on the market. The sups told him it was no good in their application as soon as they used it the first time, but his education told him it was good grease because of the ingredients... As a result we had to go back into the machine less than a year after we had just totally rebuilt and rebushed it and again put new busings in it for the second time, to the tune of about $40,000. All because the grease wasn't any good. They changed back to the good stuff for a while afterwards, and now are bouncing around again because the guys behind the desk with the education don't know what the he-- they are doing..... It keeps us in business though.... Basically, if all you have is an education out of a book then you don't have much if you don't know how to apply it....You can give a dog an education, but if he can't apply what he learns then what good is he??? Like I said I didn't mean what I said to be taken as a blanket statement about education, I'm sorry you took it that way. Personally I don't have any type of degree, but I educate myself everyday reading books, surfing the web finding tech sites, etc etc., anything to learn anything that will help me do my job better or easier. As a result I usually learn something new everyday, and am a better mechanic for the experience.
Maybe now that I have explained things more clearly you'll understand a little better what I was saying. Wayne

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