Vocational versus Theoretical
Mar. 21st, 2008 09:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylToday's question: are some qualifications worth more others? My grandmother said that she thought that it was a good thing that vocational diplomas were improving the balance between practical and theoretical subjects.
For no good reason, other than to be difficult, I argued that the idea was founded on a false dichotomy propagated by literary intellectuals and that it was quite clear that the scientific subjects were superior, involving as they do a combination of both pure and practical reason, versus the purely practical reason of the vocational and the purely pure reason of the theoretical.
Needless to say, I wiped the floor with all comers and left a trail of broken intellectual corpses in my wake.
For no good reason, other than to be difficult, I argued that the idea was founded on a false dichotomy propagated by literary intellectuals and that it was quite clear that the scientific subjects were superior, involving as they do a combination of both pure and practical reason, versus the purely practical reason of the vocational and the purely pure reason of the theoretical.
Needless to say, I wiped the floor with all comers and left a trail of broken intellectual corpses in my wake.
