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I'd say the only exception to this is when it is illegal (or possibly immoral) to carryout the lessons outside of a sanctioned learning environment. Dissecting
by jasongullickson 16y ago
I'd say the only exception to this is when it is illegal (or possibly immoral) to carryout the lessons outside of a sanctioned learning environment.
Dissecting cadavers comes to mind, or operating a small fission reactor, etc.
Of course there are ways to learn about these things without actually doing them, but there are probably some edge cases where experience is important and difficult to obtain outside of the university.
- nostrademons 16y agoThere're plenty of other edge cases where the knowledge is proprietary and only available outside of the academic system, though. You're not going to learn how Google Search works without working at Google. You're not going to learn how MS Windows works without working at Microsoft. A bunch of applied chemistry or applied biology is only available in industry.
- kaens 16y agoIt being illegal or immoral doesn't make it impossible. It's a minor semantic quibble, but a bit of an important one. For it to be impossible, you'd have to have some sort of situation where the people or materials needed to gain or apply the requisite knowledge for the whatever-you're-learning were only available through some sanctioned environment, regardless of legality or morality. I'm sure things like this exist, but they're few and far between (and we probably don't have any clue about them).
- jasongullickson 16y agoAbsolutely, I wouldn't say anything was impossible.