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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (721697)	1/14/2006 11:57:46 AM
From: haqihana	Respond to of 769670

Kenny, Yeah! And you became an ambulance chaser.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (721697)	1/14/2006 1:12:58 PM
From: ManyMoose	Respond to of 769670

My point about the curve was basically that I don't trust pollsters very much. American demographics are so diverse, I don't think you can draw any hard conclusions from a poll like the one you cited. Law school is very difficult, as the dropout rate you mention suggests. I took only one course in the law school because it was required by my forestry curriculum. It was a very interesting course. I did OK in the course, but I had to work for it. I don't know that I would have prospered in a law curriculum for several reasons. One of the reasons is the amount of specific recall you must have to remember case law, precedent, constitutionality, and so forth. Another is the adversarial design of our legal system. I prefer teamwork towards a mutual objective, which is quite impossible in court, I'm sure. Foresters have a very broad based education; broader, I think, than that of most scientific disciplines. That is because forestry is based on all the sciences, except probably nuclear and astrophysics, but it is also an art. Some people would argue that it is mostly art. To do it well takes commitment and dedication, because the environment that drives forestry is vast, and responses are slow by comparison with other scientific disciplines. Unfortunately, the rewards for doing it well are mostly internal because in order to advance one's career one must move out of the field and into the realm where politics and one upmanship prevail. You have probably noticed that there are a lot more attorneys there than foresters.