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I think it's also about the quality of academic staff. At the best universities the teaching is usually a secondary activity; the lecturers are leaders in their
by timthorn 17y ago
I think it's also about the quality of academic staff. At the best universities the teaching is usually a secondary activity; the lecturers are leaders in their field of research and can set a curriculum that a self learner would have difficulty in coming up with. But the actual learning is indeed often driven by the students.
- greenlblue 17y agoDisagree with you on that one as well. Every postdoc in the math department tells the same story. Go to the library, find something that interests you, spend every waking moment with the subject, find an advisor, write a thesis. Nowhere in any of their stories do they mention going to class designed by world class researchers and learning from lectures.
- endtime 17y agoIt may not be true for math...but math is probably the exception rather than the rule. I'd certainly say timthorn is correct about CS.