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Mike Jackson
I keep seeing threads from plumbing students saying that they don't understand some module number or need help to complete assessment number something or other. Is it just me or do other people not have the faintest idea what they are talking about?
When I did my training I don't remember all this worry about different module numbers and assessment numbers. We just did the training, went into the workshop bays and completed what we were asked to do and sat a few exams.
Are things really that much more complicated? If we didn't understand something we asked the lecturer or looked it up one of our text books, Roy Treloar helped me out quite a few times.
It seems to me that students don't want to put the time in reading textbooks or talking to each other nowadays. They seem to want instant answers from the internet without having to think.
I think the availability of advice on the internet has made people less able to figure things out for themselves. In years gone by when you went to a boiler breakdown you had to figure it out for yourself or seek help from the guys you worked with. A lot of the time you couldn't even ring the manufacturers because they didn't have help lines or the customers didn't have a phone. I know boilers were a lot more basic when I started but it seems to me from some of the posts I see on here that people aren't developing a basic understanding of the methodology of fault finding. Perhaps this is another issue from the instant gratification of having all this knowledge at your fingertips, people want an instant solution rather than spending a bit of time working it out for themselves.
When I did my training I don't remember all this worry about different module numbers and assessment numbers. We just did the training, went into the workshop bays and completed what we were asked to do and sat a few exams.
Are things really that much more complicated? If we didn't understand something we asked the lecturer or looked it up one of our text books, Roy Treloar helped me out quite a few times.
It seems to me that students don't want to put the time in reading textbooks or talking to each other nowadays. They seem to want instant answers from the internet without having to think.
I think the availability of advice on the internet has made people less able to figure things out for themselves. In years gone by when you went to a boiler breakdown you had to figure it out for yourself or seek help from the guys you worked with. A lot of the time you couldn't even ring the manufacturers because they didn't have help lines or the customers didn't have a phone. I know boilers were a lot more basic when I started but it seems to me from some of the posts I see on here that people aren't developing a basic understanding of the methodology of fault finding. Perhaps this is another issue from the instant gratification of having all this knowledge at your fingertips, people want an instant solution rather than spending a bit of time working it out for themselves.
