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This depends a lot on the person, the school and the actual teacher. While I believe that a high quality school like Stanford, MIT, etc will have excellent teac
by charlesdm 16y ago
This depends a lot on the person, the school and the actual teacher. While I believe that a high quality school like Stanford, MIT, etc will have excellent teachers and will teach you a fair amount, I have yet to encounter such people. I also believe some people are just better at figuring stuff out on their own than others, which is fine.
The places I went to didn't really have the passionate and good people you need for teaching imo. Sure many of these people can teach the basics, but once you get to a certain point a fair part of the students is actually a lot better than these teachers. You need more hackers, more highly skilled people.
I actually remember watching some of the Stanford video seminars and those courses seemed more appealing than the stuff I was being tought.
- scott_s 16y agoThis depends a lot on the person, the school and the actual teacher. Of course. But I'm making a point about what works for most people, most of the time. In this analogy, it's not necessarily a direct mapping from coach to teacher. If the coach is part of a large infrastructure, such as on a football team, then the mapping is more direct. Teachers are only one benefit of taking an actual course. An established syllabus which has gone through years of iterations is another benefit - and this is often independent of the actual teacher. Another is the motivation. Taking a course is an investment of money and ego that self-study often lacks. People tend to be more committed to something they've invested in.
- absconditus 16y agoMost people aspire to be merely adequate.