What education does a computer technologist need?

No offense, but DUH!! Wouldn't you need alot of knowledge for fixing a computer, unless your have some kind of miracle gift or what not. I think there is alot of education required for this type of career.

No offense but there is almost no level of education required to be a computer technician. In fact, I have a friend that went to school at Oxford. She has a Doctorate in English Grammar and Composition. She was an editor of computer manuals for both IBM and Microsoft. She said the the manuals were notoriously boorish not written well, and grammatically incorrect. She once told me that most of the computer "greats," have no formal education at all. Some of them attended private schools in England and Wales. Some of them went on to college, but not all. There is no national accreditation in the USA or in Europe. As a techie no one knows what you are doing and you can claim anything. My Doctor (LIT) friend moved to the USA and it was no different. Many techies claim college, but when you begin asking them if they took Calculus or Differential Equations, they start getting all Smokey and begin stuttering and stammering. Of course some of the ones that have college degrees in Computer Engineering of went to college. Then the question is how many times were they

allowed to take each of their courses like linear algebra, circuit engineering , and systems analysis, and so forth? Did they attend prep school or private school where they were spoon fed the answers? Did they have tutors and what college did they go to Georgia Tech, MIT or Princeton?