new RPT

Leslie W Bartlett lesbart@juno.com
Mon, 16 Aug 1999 06:07:59 -0500


How do I "feel" about being RPT?

	Like I jumped through the proper hoops.    When I finished my course
work for my music masters, I spent six hours a day for a summer preparing
for comprehensive exams.  We were told we were to be tested on the "field
of music".  The more our little group studied. with a tutor, the more we
realized how ludicrous that was.  We became more and more convinced we
knew nothing.  However we did the studying, took the tests, "jumped
through the hoops", and got our degrees.

	Recently I was chatting with another tech who has a graduate degree in
cello, about  what that experience meant.  "In graduate school, I learned
to ask the Questions."     RPT doesn't convince me I have answers, only
that it is possible to learn which questions to ask.  If the questions
are asked well, then the answers can usually be found embedded in the
questions themselves.  Once I have the "answer", it becomes so natural to
stop asking the Questions-  and that, to me would be a sad day, indeed.

	So, perhaps I've learned how to ask a few questions..................

les bartlett
houston
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