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Re: TAPS -- what happened to the student he had an eye on?
I don't know which (if in fact he really had his eye on one) student it was. But our grad students always got good jobs because we offered computerized Geographic Info Systems training, which at the time wasn't available everywhere, and we had a pod of the U.S. Census bureau in-house, also excellent for a student's resume.
posted by
Pat_B
on June 14, 2012 at 5:55 AM
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I agree. And I love reading your personal history lessons.
Just curious, what happened to the student he had an eye on?
posted by
TAPS.
on June 13, 2012 at 4:47 PM
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I agree. I wouldn't trade my own education for anything! 
posted by
JimmyA
on June 13, 2012 at 1:54 PM
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Pat you broke the mould, you could have just thought of yourself as a failure your children must be proud of you and I am as well.
posted by
C_C_T
on June 13, 2012 at 10:01 AM
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Pat
You are absolutely correct! But there was something else that caught my eye, and which is terribly important! You wrote, 'I never had to nag them to do their homework -- they saw me studying every night and followed suit.'
That’s the key to the box that holds the key, LOL. Parents need to be actively engaged in learning for children to be interested in it! Merely preaching and nagging doesn’t do it!
My parents were done with university by the time I came around, but they were both readers! To me, reading books was one of the ‘natural’ things people do when they’re not eating, sleeping or playing, and I am not exactly sure how old I was when my Mom taught me to read. I just know that by the time I began school I was making my way through Gulliver’s Travels and other books way over my head.
That I didn’t ‘get’ it all didn’t matter…Mind you, it led to huge problems in Grade 1, but that’s another story…
posted by
Nautikos
on June 13, 2012 at 7:00 AM
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PatB
Of course he respected you , and good thing he did too he got to keep breathin' luv.
posted by
WileyJohn
on June 13, 2012 at 6:55 AM
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Good for you and we were brave gals "Sisters doing it for ourselves"
"I am Woman"...I started University 1986 full time and lived on air and a help from the Gov. They wisely thought it better to educate me than to keep me on welfare. They got it all back in taxes eventually. LOL
posted by
Kabu
on June 13, 2012 at 6:23 AM
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