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Any education before college is training, not teaching. They train you, like a dog, to pass a set of exams. Learning something in the process is irrelevant for
by sildur 6y ago
Any education before college is training, not teaching. They train you, like a dog, to pass a set of exams. Learning something in the process is irrelevant for the "teachers".
- jrockway 6y agoNot really. I should have gone to the physics den instead of the math office to show it off, though. In math, there is no uncertainty. The real world has annoying quirks, however. (When I was in college, they built a new engineering laboratory complex, and everyone moved to it. Some people doing laser experiments had to go back to the old building, though, because the new one vibrated too much.)
- TeMPOraL 6y agoReminds me of a story a friend told me, about how their university management wanted to save money and shut the AC off during holiday break. This almost destroyed a $1M research laser; after the break, the researchers came back to their lab, only to discover the air inside is just a little short of hitting the dew point and covering all the expensive optics in water. (AFAIK that same team also had a problem when moving to a new building, because it wasn't constructed level enough.)