Novice sysadmins

[sethm at rollernet.us (Seth Mattinen)]

On 12/6/17 09:16, Nate Metheny wrote:
> I've always been more than willing to share knowledge and skill training
> with those who show interest and talent; the more qualified and interested
> people involved, the better, in my opinion. Making the club "exclusive" by
> requiring thousands of dollars of training and testing is just another
> method of control and elitism.


Is it elitism that professional engineers (structural, mechanical, 
civil, etc.) be educated with required experience as a junior engineer 
before they can take the PE exam?