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The whole system reminds me of professional taxi drivers and Uber drivers. The established education system is based on legal proof and bureaucratic paper trail
by FrozenVoid 9y ago
The whole system reminds me of professional taxi drivers and Uber drivers.
The established education system is based on legal proof and bureaucratic paper trails(analogous to taxi medallions), made to guarantee some level of competence(being a taxi driver vs Uber driver).
The whole prestige of academia isn't access to information: internet has more academic content than
any university(e.g. Sci-hub, Arxiv, book sites, online courses).
Universities own vast collections of lab equipment/tools/devices which universities can afford due economy of scale(serving groups), this "lab-grade" stuff is out of budget for most people.
Of course there are areas where research can be done with older, cheaper and simpler equipment, but cutting edge science is confined to top-hardware owners:
An example is amateur astronomers having much less capable telescopes and recording equipment, but still capable of advancing science with affordable devices.
- Mediterraneo10 9y ago> The whole prestige of academia isn't access to information: internet has more academic content than any university This is not the case at all for many fields. In my branch of linguistics, for example, the majority of important literature is not available online. A person cannot teach themselves this field; you need access to the print resources in a large library at a handful of universities. Now, since the dawn of ebook sharing sites, my colleagues and I have been gradually scanning resources and uploading them to Libgen or the like, but progress is slow and we have barely scratched the surface.