12 Sep
2008
12 Sep
'08
4:48 p.m.
On Friday 12 September 2008 14:13:51 Fons Adriaensen wrote:
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 07:22:41PM +0200, Pieter
Palmers wrote:
Back in the late 80s or early 90s, I used to give gratis computer classes at
my home on Saturday mornings. Often I would turn down boat outings and other
nice activities to teach the classes only to sit at home and have no one show
and no one call to cancel.
I decided that if I were ever to offer such gratis classes in the future,
students would have to pay a good amount for the course in advance and get
refunds for every class they attended and were on time for. By the end of the
course they would have received a full refund if they respected my time. If
not, I would have been paid for my time.
For comparison: in the government subsidized
culture center in my city
they offer an introductory Cubase course of 5x2.5hrs for 135eur. Do the
math. (Note that participants have the option to BUY Cubase -50%...).
350 Euro is around what I payed for 200 hours
of Portuguese evening classes.
:-) :-) :-) Beware of the Dutch ! They
even sell sand to the Arabs. :-) :-) :-)
Ciao,
all the best,
drew