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> Chances are you'll end up going to some crappy Java school ... > This is what Universities do ... they train people to think ... So your average university

> Chances are you'll end up going to some crappy Java school ... > This is what Universities do ... they train people to think ... So your average university can't teach me to code, but it can impart to me the wisdom of the ages. Not my experience. At least at a state university, most kids are there to party and walk out with a credential that (they hope) gets them an agreeable, good paying job. That is the culture that the university has to share, at least by default. Yes, you can get more out of university than that, and some do. But the idea that your horizons will be broadened and you will acquire culture and Learn How To Think just because you had to pay a pile of money get in the doors . . . no, I'm afraid not.

hga 16y ago
I wonder, how many universities and colleges can you attend and not be able to learn "the wisdom of the ages". All it takes is a few dedicated professors who are dying to be able to teach someone, anyone, who, in my case (this was MIT in the mid-80s), could identify the French Revolution. After that seminar session my professor said he would have retired if no one could have answered the question ... then again, history is my humanities specialty. Hmmm, I still study about as much history as I do CS and software engineering. I've observed this directly or indirectly at 2nd and 3rd tier schools as well (and MIT's humanities departments aren't by and large first tier as far as I know).