The biggest advantage is that you learn from someone who's seen more than
what's in the books. They can answer questions that don't have tidy answers,
and to some extent are professional teachers now.
The more time I spend teaching, the more I'm impressed by people that do it
all the time. It can be incredibly invigorating and exhausting at the same
time, and the effort to do it day after day astounds me.
If you want to do it in house, you'll get the text, and not much more. I'd
compare it to learning to do interior trim carpentry by reading the manual
on a miter saw. You might get there, but wow, the time you'll waste!
And thanks for talking with us, I appreciate that. Now back to the salt
mines.
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James Wedding, P.E.
Engineered Efficiency, Inc.
Civil 3D 2007
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