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To: The Philosopher who wrote (45861)	7/17/1999 3:12:00 AM
From: nihil	Respond to of 108807

Lots of studies of national educational planning integrating higher education and human resource needs (Korea, Thailand, Singapore, U.S.), youth unemployment forecasting in U.S., limits to growth (Japan and US), big econometric forecasting models, etc.-- the disciplines are economics, industrial relations, business administration and computer science. In retrospect, the forecasting processes turned out reasonable results. My personal alumni include a university president, an ambassador, several deans, and lots of professors --- uniformly successful and good people. To me, the close personal relationship between a graduate student and a professor is the most rewarding in all of education. I didn't have that relationship as a student, but my best friends were graduate students that worked with me.

To: The Philosopher who wrote (45861)	7/17/1999 7:38:00 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

There is a lot of truth in this statement to me. Russell L. Ackoff says, I once had a brilliant student ... who wrote a highly technical thesis. I asked him to assume that I was an ordinary corporate manager. Would he explain the thesis briefly? He went to the blackboard and began to cover it with mathematical symbols. I stopped him to remind him that I was an ordinary manager, not a mathematician. After a long pause he said, 'I don't understand what I've done well enough to explain it in nontechnical language.' Unless people can express themselves in ordinary English, they don't know what they are talking about.