Ragged Clown  It's just a shadow you're seeing that he's
chasing…   90% of everything is crap  In my profession, software
engineering, only about 10% of the professionals ever read books
or practice or attend conferences or keep track of what the
gurus are saying or aspire to gurudom themselves. For many, the
highest aspiration is that one day they will stop being a
software professional so they can manage other software
professionals.  Since software first broke out of the academy
and started to be used commercially, the main concern of the
software establishment has been to prevent the majority – the
90% who have no desire to improve themselves – from doing the
wrong thing.  I haven’t seen everything yet but, from what I
have seen of it so far, Sturgeon’s Law holds.  90% of everything
is crap  That’s certainly true in my profession and that makes
me wonder about the others. In particular it makes me wonder
about the teaching profession.  When I look back on my
schooldays, one thing I remember clearly is tha