{"id":2587,"date":"2018-01-11T01:56:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T06:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/?p=2587"},"modified":"2017-12-23T16:22:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T21:22:21","slug":"graduate-school-concepts-vs-trade-school-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2018\/01\/graduate-school-concepts-vs-trade-school-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate School (concepts) vs Trade School (tools)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n<p><strong>If we could keep concepts and tools separate&#8230;well maybe the world would be a better place.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There is graduate school: learn concepts and how to extend concepts.<\/p>\n<p>There is trade school: learn how to use a tool to do a job.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm, these two sound different, different enough that we wouldn&#8217;t confuse the two. For some reason we can&#8217;t seem to separate them. If we could, I think we would do many things much better, but what do I know other than a few concepts and how to extend them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Dwayne Phillips If we could keep concepts and tools separate&#8230;well maybe the world would be a better place. There is graduate school: learn concepts and how to extend concepts. There is trade school: learn how to use a tool to do a job. Hmmm, these two sound different, different enough that we wouldn&#8217;t confuse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[293,292],"tags":[294,295],"class_list":["post-2587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-concepts","category-tools","tag-concepts","tag-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2588,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions\/2588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}