GANNON: [referring to Dr Hugo Pine, Prof Stone's boyfriend] So he's got more degrees than a thermometer, so he speaks seven languages, so he's read every book. So what? The important thing is he's had no experience. He didn't start at the bottom and work up. That's the only way you can learn.
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STONE: As my father used to say, a reporter has to do a lot of sweating before he earns the right to perspire.
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STONE: Newspapers can't compete in reporting what happened any more, but they can and should tell the public why it happened.
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DR PINE: To me, journalism is, ah, like a hangover. You can read about it for years, but until you've actually experienced it, you have no conception of what it's really like.
Friday, January 23, 2009
Experience vs Education
"Teacher's Pet" (1958). Clark Gable (James Gannon) is the hard-boiled city editor of a newspaper. He scoffs at the idea of journalism being taught in night school: hard knocks and shoe leather are his preferred textbooks. So he is not pleased when his managing editor orders him to help Doris Day (Erica Stone), a college professor, with her journalism class. Gable masquerades as an inexperienced student in order to prove her wrong...
