[nagdu] update on my work question

[Buddy Brannan via nagdu]

Hi,

Education by action is the best kind of education. Clearly, in your case, it works a treat. And, more importantly, they’re as educated as they need to be. The how and why doesn’t matter, clearly your coworkers see results, and that’s what they care about. That’s the best thing ever.

To tell you the truth, I think it’s possible to be *too* educated. Sometimes, it’s those smart people that often have the hardest time…has anyone else ever noticed that? Like, in school, it seemed like it was easier to make friends with the people who was the more average students, maybe the ones that weren’t really academic? Seems that those were the people who had more common sense going on upstairs, the ones who, if they wanted to know something about you, they’d just plain old ask, and otherwise everyone got on with life. The so-called A students, the ones in the AP classes that did really well, you know, the ones who would argue about why they got a 95 instead of a 97, coincidentally, the ones I was in lots of classes with, just didn’t know what to do with us. This of course has absolutely nothing to do with education or, I guess, much of anything else, but I still wonder if it’s really a thing or not. 
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Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV - Erie, PA
Phone: (814) 860-3194 or (814) 431-0962




On May 15, 2014, at 12:16 PM, Julie J. via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:

> Thanks to all of you!  Yes, my employer is super supportive of me as a blind person, but really it isn't a big deal.  I know this sounds kind of backwards, but I have never had in depth conversations with anyone in my office about Braille, guide dogs, accessible technology or general blindness.  I just do what I need to to do and take care of my job responsibilities and it's all good.  I guess perhaps that's education by action?  I don't know.
> 
> I'm not sure how educated any of them are about blindness and what guide dogs do exactly.  I'm not sure that it matters to them.  I show up and get stuff done, so they are happy.  It works.   I don't think the details of the how are so important as the results.
> Julie 
> 
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