KØHB wrote:
"Jeffrey Herman" wrote

A Vietnamese proverb I include in my syllabus each semester says, "If you
study you'll become what you desire; if you do not study you'll never
become anything."

Chief Petty Officer, U.S. Coast Guard
Mathematics Lecturer, University of Hawaii System

I'll remember that for the next time I want to impress a Vienamese bimbo.

Vietnamese proverbs, huh? I'm going to guess that Jeff wants his
"students" to think he's a vietnam vet.

Meanwhile here's a proverb from Bokonon which I include in my lectures:

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something,
learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
He is full of murderous resentment of people who
are ignorant without having come by their ignorance
the hard way."

Pokomon sounds very wise.

You sound like a socialist, Hans -- a believer in one and only one class
in a society.


Quite the opposite, Jeffrey, I'm a staunch Libertarian, and I believe that the
only legitimate interest that government has in Amateur Radio licensing is to
determine if the applicant is qualified or not qualified,

and to enforce...

not to
social-engineer the Amateur Service into an arbitrary layer cake of
good/better/best operators.

But, but, but if the Government couldn't determine who the very best
operators were, then QST would have no "antique radio" article to write
about in the January issue of QST.