Seriously...
I'm surrounded by morons...
The following is a key illustration on why I think that degrees in "Education" are worthless. If you are going to teach something, you should have a degree in WHAT you are teaching... Teaching Biology? Get a freaking Biology degree.... For Example:
To give you a little background, I lead a team of four designers on this project. The project itself is totally irrelevant. As a result of leading this team, I am asked to give a one hour presentation on the graphic design industry in general to a college class today. The teacher is absent today and a substitute is filling in... Guess what? I went to high school with this teacher. We were NOT fond of each other then. However, I am MUCH more friendly now than I use to be. So, I smile, shake her hand, ask her how she's been, etc. etc. etc. I set up my netbook and projector and start talking. The substitute is OBVIOUSLY faking a smile and only being polite due to the setting.
Half way through my talk I am going over some slides illustrating what "trapping" is, how it works, why it is used, etc. One of my examples is a picture of some Cyan=100 letters printed on top of Magenta=100 with and without trapping. In the slide that had trapping off, of course as any damn designer knows, the text was royal blue....
And this is where "Were-Teacher" decided to pounce...
"You can't make blue... It's a primary color..." She snorted...
Now, in a class full of digital artists, that was the wrong thing to say... The class started laughing. Were-Teacher, of course, took this as they were laughing at me...
Ah... How she relished in the thought of that... I saw the fire in her eyes ignite as she bolstered confidence....
"Actually ma'am, when dealing with inks, we use a CMYK subtractive color model instead of the Red/Green/Blue additive color model...." I started...
Here is where she interrupts me and plays the "I have a a doctorates degree" card...
"Look, I have a doctorates in education. I think I know how colors work..."
"Obviously you don't ma'am..." At this point I see my saving grace... An inkjet printer refill kit on one of the work benches... With Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and BlacK ink...
"Apparently you do not know the difference between additive color models and subtractive color models... CMYK is a subtractive color model. Watch...."
On a scrap piece of paper I mixed in front of her eyes two ink colors... Magenta and Cyan... The result? A beautiful royal blue... After a round of applause from the students, I simply add:
"And I only have a lowly Bachelors and a recently finished Associates degree..."
I had no further problems out of her the remainder of that class and for the second class I had to speak for.
*Edit*
Now I am curious as to why a woman with a doctorates in education is working as a substitute...
The following is a key illustration on why I think that degrees in "Education" are worthless. If you are going to teach something, you should have a degree in WHAT you are teaching... Teaching Biology? Get a freaking Biology degree.... For Example:
To give you a little background, I lead a team of four designers on this project. The project itself is totally irrelevant. As a result of leading this team, I am asked to give a one hour presentation on the graphic design industry in general to a college class today. The teacher is absent today and a substitute is filling in... Guess what? I went to high school with this teacher. We were NOT fond of each other then. However, I am MUCH more friendly now than I use to be. So, I smile, shake her hand, ask her how she's been, etc. etc. etc. I set up my netbook and projector and start talking. The substitute is OBVIOUSLY faking a smile and only being polite due to the setting.
Half way through my talk I am going over some slides illustrating what "trapping" is, how it works, why it is used, etc. One of my examples is a picture of some Cyan=100 letters printed on top of Magenta=100 with and without trapping. In the slide that had trapping off, of course as any damn designer knows, the text was royal blue....
And this is where "Were-Teacher" decided to pounce...
"You can't make blue... It's a primary color..." She snorted...
Now, in a class full of digital artists, that was the wrong thing to say... The class started laughing. Were-Teacher, of course, took this as they were laughing at me...
Ah... How she relished in the thought of that... I saw the fire in her eyes ignite as she bolstered confidence....
"Actually ma'am, when dealing with inks, we use a CMYK subtractive color model instead of the Red/Green/Blue additive color model...." I started...
Here is where she interrupts me and plays the "I have a a doctorates degree" card...
"Look, I have a doctorates in education. I think I know how colors work..."
"Obviously you don't ma'am..." At this point I see my saving grace... An inkjet printer refill kit on one of the work benches... With Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and BlacK ink...
"Apparently you do not know the difference between additive color models and subtractive color models... CMYK is a subtractive color model. Watch...."
On a scrap piece of paper I mixed in front of her eyes two ink colors... Magenta and Cyan... The result? A beautiful royal blue... After a round of applause from the students, I simply add:
"And I only have a lowly Bachelors and a recently finished Associates degree..."
I had no further problems out of her the remainder of that class and for the second class I had to speak for.
*Edit*
Now I am curious as to why a woman with a doctorates in education is working as a substitute...