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Aug 20, 2006 10:18

Speaking to a good friend the other day, he spoke of what he called the 'uni / non-uni' divide. The line that exists so solidly between those educated to university level and those not. It is a line which has always been drawn in my head like some sort of residual conditioning which I have not yet swept away, a wall of solid dust I do not feel like ( Read more... )

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tiredstars August 20 2006, 16:44:43 UTC

I'd disagree on your characterisation of some jobs as quite so repetitive. A teacher, for example, will have different reactions from pupils every day, different classes who behave differently, a different set of student every year, and will also be involved in a whole set of activities beyond their regular teaching. And even in marking work they may see different views and ways of doing things, and in lesson planning it pays to be creative ( ... )

recurrence_bat August 21 2006, 03:05:03 UTC

It was something of a sweeping generalisation I made and quite deliberately. For I am not saying that these jobs are all completely repetitive, and you are right to point out that some are naturally more so than others, but rather that the underlying repetitivity is there. And in this way very few jobs actually, when it comes down to it, require anything more than the application of learned behaviour. Look at teachers who have done their jobs for many years, they will tell you that not much changes from year to year any more. Even the students probably sit in certain catergories by that stage and only an exceptional few will ever stand out in a remarkable way to make their lives interesting. It is fair of course to say that more high-brow jobs are likely by their nature to contain more variation and perhaps this is the key difference. It just intrigued me to consider how little people continue to learn, how little the NEED to continue to learn is there for most people, whatever they do. Learn-apply-perfect-repeat ( ... )

tiredstars August 21 2006, 14:11:52 UTC

I think a lot of medical professionals are still comparatively underpaid for the amount of training they have undergone and the hours they work. But the respect given to teachers, doctors and similar professions in this country (and many others) is definitely a lot lower than it was. (Why all our doctors are Indian ( ... )