Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

[David Jardine <david@jardine.de>]

On Sun, Feb 04, 2007 at 05:54:15PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:

[...]
> The Dreyfus Model of Sill Acquisition [1], describes skills acquisition
> as passing through five levels:  novice, advanced beginner, competent,
> proficient, and expert.
[...]
>                                                           I also
> taught nursing where we take novices and turn them into advanced
> beginners over the course of 4 years.  

Thanks, Doug!  That was most enlightening.  Five stages, four 
years per stage. I'd often wondered why I'd displayed no sign of 
competence in all my years with Debian, but I see that it won't 
be long now!  Mmm.  Or will it?

Cheers,
David

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David Jardine

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