Sometimes in the rush to get posts out on a consistent basis, mistakes get made. For example, last week when I stated that there was only one small school in Europe that offered an education in the art and science of ropeways.
That statement was made based on numerous conversations I’d had with people in the ropeway industry, all of whom assured me that there was only one school.
Apparently, however, that isn’t exactly true. As the readers of The Gondola Project let me know, there are a handful of schools around the world that do offer some schooling in the subject matter, including for example the University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland.
Not many mind you, but certainly not only one.
So please accept my apologies. I shouldn’t have taken at face value what a few people said without backing up my statements with my own independent research.
The curse of the internet and things like a blog is the need to pump out content at a never-ending, voracious pace, sometimes at the expense of accuracy.
The flipside of that, however, is that when you do get something completely wrong – as I did last week – there are no shortage of people willing to point that out to you.
Thanks to all the Gondola Project readers who did so politely, positively and as a show of support rather than out of one-upmanship.
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It takes a big person to say when he/she is wrong. Newspapers bury their corrections deep in the paper. This one is on the “front cover” for all to see. Kudos!
Your “food for thought” was spot on, however. How will the industry get bigger and better without new blood coming into it? And experts sharing their knowledge and hard earned wisdom?
The Gondola Project is that (virtual) specialized educational resource. Just no degree, credits, major or minor. On the “freemium” model, no less!
Thanks for keeping the “university” going for 1214 days!
It was a “forced” error, because Gondola and the entire ropeway/rope engineering seem forgotten even in its birthplaces : Italy that have a very strong tradition and the companies that built the very first ropeways (Ceretti & Tanfani and Agudio) had never a specific university department or sector, but the same is true also for UK or Belgium where for two centuries material ropeways were as important and diffused as trucks nowadays.
Apology hardly needed – you opened up a good topic that people responded to with valuable info!