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<blockquote data-quote="Brad Weber" data-source="post: 97375" data-attributes="member: 114">Re: Property TaxI think this may touch on the fact that formal education is usually assumed to represent some known and vetted content and verification of how well the information was retained while informal education often represents an unknown in terms of what is shared or learned.&nbsp; And that is what always causes me to hesitate when people recommend practical experience without adding the caveat of that needing to be experience where one learns good practices rather than poor practices that later have to be unlearned.&nbsp; I was recently reminded of this by someone posting in another forum about their vast experience and 20+ years in the industry only to have them go on to espouse designing systems based on a certain number of watts per person criteria.&nbsp; At least the forum format allowed others to respond to that, a great improvement over the days when your sources of information were often quite limited.&nbsp; Good education is a positive sum game but poor education can be a negative sum game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Brad Weber, post: 97375, member: 114"] Re: Property Tax I think this may touch on the fact that formal education is usually assumed to represent some known and vetted content and verification of how well the information was retained while informal education often represents an unknown in terms of what is shared or learned. And that is what always causes me to hesitate when people recommend practical experience without adding the caveat of that needing to be experience where one learns good practices rather than poor practices that later have to be unlearned. I was recently reminded of this by someone posting in another forum about their vast experience and 20+ years in the industry only to have them go on to espouse designing systems based on a certain number of watts per person criteria. At least the forum format allowed others to respond to that, a great improvement over the days when your sources of information were often quite limited. Good education is a positive sum game but poor education can be a negative sum game. [/QUOTE]

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