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To: Lane3 who wrote (88732)	11/30/2004 11:34:32 AM
From: Sig	Respond to of 793732

I hope I didn't leave the impression that I was criticizing the ivory tower model. I wasn't.>>> Agreed: About those ivory towers on campus.... Tenure, assured funding, and access to the best equipment available, permits professors( often having a bit more grey matter which is much better organized than average students) to pursue their fields of interests thoroughly clear down to the bed rock level. And in the process discover potential new applications or values. In this instance, it requires that school superintendents have open minds and a liberal attitude to permit underlings to pursue studies having no immediate monetary value. That liberal attitude will transfer many teachers or students. In many cases today, the Government or industry will fund special studies that do produce valuable output, and is also a great help for the school to buy needed equipment. Even studies in history such as that of Japan are valuable, not that governments pay much attention or learn anything useful, but because the interaction of domestic and foreign students creates better relationships, understanding, and trust. Unless they want to study how to fly with no attention paid to landing procedures. Sig