Register to leave a comment, or log in if you already have an account
Anyone can go to law school. Just master some big words, like provockety.
Law was much more of a trade, back in the 18th-19th centuries. You could “read law” with a practicing lawyer and work your way up to bar admission. Jefferson did this, among many others.
U.S. Law is much thicker, more heavily sourced, and there are layers of statutory and regultory complexity now that did not exist then, that I would be uncomfortable with that method now as a general rule. The law community was so much smaller and socially self-policing then, that you could not get too far out of line, ethically. Now, no one knows anyone, and people try all kinds of crap. karma works surprisingly more often for those folks than one woudl imagine, however.
Agreed, PS.
lechs’ points 1-Yes it’s a structure of parent’s requirements. Not a bad thing. Any school schedule could be so labeled.
2- totally agree. similarly with ‘bias’ in textbooks. if i seem much of it, i can browbeat my son into believing my beliefs, at least until he’s a teenager.
3-possibly but a) why? the current system imo works fine and b) details?
Just because there are some (or many) bad schools which ‘warehouse’ pupils does not mean that the system is broken. It means the social structure which produces those kids is broken.
I hope the guy who is going to be taking a scalpel to my jewels this afternoon paid attention in med school. Don’t really give a crap whether he went to a good elementary school though. In fact, I don’t much care whether he went to elementary school at all.
I hope montrose is enjoying her status as the standard against which arguments are measured.
sloper, I said a lot more in that post that that education is a myth. In fact, I think I laid the groundwork for much of the 3 points you seem to agree with. If you had followed up “that’s ridiculous” with reasoning, I wouldn’t have picked on you for just calling something ridiculous.
“Abe Lincoln had years of Latin and Greek before practicing law?
Anyways, you certainly don’t need it today in order to go to law school.”
This is true, getting into law school is not like getting into medical school. Get an ace score on the LSAT (which requires no real knowledge, just logical thinking and a reasonable vocabulary) gets you in virtually anywhere. If you screw up the LSAT you can always go to Malibu law school for the good weather.
plus there is something to be said about exposure to all kinds of subjects in school… lots of people find out what they like and what they dont like.
disciplines.
Anyone can go to law school. Just master some big words, like provockety.
Law was much more of a trade, back in the 18th-19th centuries. You could “read law” with a practicing lawyer and work your way up to bar admission. Jefferson did this, among many others.
U.S. Law is much thicker, more heavily sourced, and there are layers of statutory and regultory complexity now that did not exist then, that I would be uncomfortable with that method now as a general rule. The law community was so much smaller and socially self-policing then, that you could not get too far out of line, ethically. Now, no one knows anyone, and people try all kinds of crap. karma works surprisingly more often for those folks than one woudl imagine, however.
quote:
That’s a MM-worthy response
oh brother
*rob*
Hi everyone,
21,000,000,000 by 10,000
don’t divide
just drop the last 4 zeros
like this:
21,000,000,000
– 0000
——————
2,100,000
cmu and parksloper,
I left you links last night on the OT
regarding the questions you asked me.
sorry I didn’t respond earlier.
You might, after your procedure lech. Think how you might feel to find out his pre-med training was on a chicken farm 🙂
Good luck, btw.
Agreed, PS.
lechs’ points 1-Yes it’s a structure of parent’s requirements. Not a bad thing. Any school schedule could be so labeled.
2- totally agree. similarly with ‘bias’ in textbooks. if i seem much of it, i can browbeat my son into believing my beliefs, at least until he’s a teenager.
3-possibly but a) why? the current system imo works fine and b) details?
Just because there are some (or many) bad schools which ‘warehouse’ pupils does not mean that the system is broken. It means the social structure which produces those kids is broken.
I hope the guy who is going to be taking a scalpel to my jewels this afternoon paid attention in med school. Don’t really give a crap whether he went to a good elementary school though. In fact, I don’t much care whether he went to elementary school at all.
I hope montrose is enjoying her status as the standard against which arguments are measured.
sloper, I said a lot more in that post that that education is a myth. In fact, I think I laid the groundwork for much of the 3 points you seem to agree with. If you had followed up “that’s ridiculous” with reasoning, I wouldn’t have picked on you for just calling something ridiculous.
“Abe Lincoln had years of Latin and Greek before practicing law?
Anyways, you certainly don’t need it today in order to go to law school.”
This is true, getting into law school is not like getting into medical school. Get an ace score on the LSAT (which requires no real knowledge, just logical thinking and a reasonable vocabulary) gets you in virtually anywhere. If you screw up the LSAT you can always go to Malibu law school for the good weather.
plus there is something to be said about exposure to all kinds of subjects in school… lots of people find out what they like and what they dont like.
disciplines.
*rob*