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>Society would be better off if people were guided to autodidacticism.... I don't know man? Might be fine if you're majoring in something harmless like music,
by bilbo0s 7y ago
>Society would be better off if people were guided to autodidacticism....
I don't know man?
Might be fine if you're majoring in something harmless like music, or art. But for the safety of society at large you just can't implement such a naive system for majors like nuclear engineering or virology. It'd just be irresponsible to the point of being outright dangerous.
- cameronbrown 7y agoThere's definitely a middle ground to be achieved here. Rigorous assessment doesn't have to go away to implement this.
- adamnemecek 7y ago> naive It's not naive. No, in my system people could actually pick up nuclear engineering in high school as opposed to college. It's retarded that school in some delays you, because in hs, you need to do some bullshit as opposed to what you want. I also didn't say anything against assessments.
- jrockway 7y agoDo people learn anything from lectures about safety at school? Everyone takes computer ethics. Everyone knows about Therac-25. Where are we 30 years later? Engineers still implement open-loop control systems. Programmers still write programs with integer overflows. Speed to market beats safety every time (hello, MCAS). So was it really worth thousands of dollars for someone to tell you about that in a class? A few people dying is always a lower priority than a higher share price, it seems. So might as well not waste money on education, right?