Over-educated is a state of mind. Kind of like Zen, but with more books.
I love that!
It's kind of why I'm alibrarian. While working the reference desk keeps you in touch with all the stuff you don't know, it also makes all the stuff you do know, whether that's learned in an academic setting or elsewhere, useful, or potentially so. And it makes a lot of what you don't know within some kind of reach, if only so you can lead the patron to the books on calculus or Swahili or whatever.
Calculus is one of my "But I don't know ...!" subjects. I barely passed trigonometry and never really had much need for "higher math," being firmly entrenched in the "fuzzy subjects", but I've always wondered about it.
This relates to something I said in supergee's thread about his father, and also to something I said in an e-mail to my nephew last week. He's gone back to college: six years after graduating, he decided to switch majors, and now he's studying math.
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Date: 2003-10-02 02:55 pm (UTC)I love that!
It's kind of why I'm alibrarian. While working the reference desk keeps you in touch with all the stuff you don't know, it also makes all the stuff you do know, whether that's learned in an academic setting or elsewhere, useful, or potentially so. And it makes a lot of what you don't know within some kind of reach, if only so you can lead the patron to the books on calculus or Swahili or whatever.
Calculus is one of my "But I don't know ...!" subjects. I barely passed trigonometry and never really had much need for "higher math," being firmly entrenched in the "fuzzy subjects", but I've always wondered about it.
This relates to something I said in