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Originally Posted by jonathan lall
You think that post was long? 
Edward Abbey once said that “growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.”
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well it was long for
me.
i feel that as far as FIRST goes, growth for the sake of growth
is a good thing. each year, thousands (millions?) of high-schoolers will graduate, and a large portion of them will never learn about 'GP', see that engineering isn't just numbers and math, or be otherwise inspired. unless they somehow get roped in during their college years they're going to miss this eye-opening experience that most of us take for granted. so be it by the triplet model (many teams, many schools), the MOE model (one team, many schools), or something else (i like
Kim's idea), i think we need to grow as much as we can, as fast as we can. i want as many people as possible to experience FIRST.
personally, i've always pictured FIRST more as a virus than a cancer. we try to 'infect' who-ever we can, in an effort to destroy the current culture; the one that elevates actors, athletes, and singers as heros, with little or no respect for engineers, doctors, lawyers, etc.
hey, i can do metaphors too!!