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I went to mediocre uni here in the UK studying Web Development. The educational value was pretty much worthless. I learnt more in a year at my first job than th
by Vuska 6y ago
I went to mediocre uni here in the UK studying Web Development. The educational value was pretty much worthless. I learnt more in a year at my first job than three years of university. But being forced to move out and become independent was invaluable.
- PopeDotNinja 6y agoSome education isn't all that useful. I had a computer-something-related class in college where we were talking about how computers were getting faster. Professor: If you think computers are fast now, it'll blow your mind that back in the 60s the NSA has computers running at 1000. Me: 1000? You mean 1000 megahertz? Professor: No, 1000. Me: facepalm I'm still paying off those student loans.
- onion2k 6y agoIn this case the professor was being an idiot (and meant hertz, not megahertz), but there are plenty of dimensionless quantities that can be just "running at 1000". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dimensionless_quantities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dimensionless_quantiti...
- HPsquared 6y ago"Those that can't do, teach."
- toomanybeersies 6y agoAnd those who can't teach, research.
- BossingAround 6y agoAnd all of them are still paying off the student debt.
- nnoitra 6y agoAnd neither of them will be alive in 100 years.
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- dekhn 6y agoI got in an argument with a philosophy professor. He put a stick in water and said 'look... the stick is broken'. I said "no, the stick is not broken. it appears broken because the index of refraction is different in water than air, which causes light to bed". he didn't like that very much. It's still not clear to me what point he was trying to make (that human senses are limited?)
- dpau 6y agoyou were of course correct, but your professor was simply illustrating a point- of whether we can trust our senses, of how we truly "know" something. philosophy often brings up "commonsensical" questions such as these. he probably didn't reply to you because he was bored from hearing the same smart alecky response every year :)
- dekhn 6y agoIf that was his point, there are far better ways to argue for it (specifically, Descartes' great deceiver). There was nothiing smart alecky about my response- just touching the stick, or pulling the stick back out, would verify that it was not broken.
- barry-cotter 6y agoIf he couldn’t illustrate his point without using an optical illusion explained by high school physics maybe he should be doing something else.