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I like the US college system. In each track, you move along at the appropriate speed and levels.
by pnathan 15y ago
I like the US college system. In each track, you move along at the appropriate speed and levels.
- Pointsly 15y agoCollege is not working - by the time kids graduate most of what they 'learned' in the classroom is outdated. College if anything is just a good place to gain 'social experiences'.
- hnal943 15y agoThat's ridiculous when applied to college education in general. Do you really think that history, mechanical engineering or business majors graduate only to find that their education is rendered uselessly out of date?
- burgerbrain 15y agoExactly. Out of date information may perhaps plague trade schools (I kind of doubt it there too..) but in a proper curriculum in a university it's total popular myth rubbish.
- burgerbrain 15y agoYou are misunderstanding what college is intended to accomplish. The goal is to teach students how to teach themselves. This knowledge doesn't become outdated, and ensures that students never have to allow their other knowledge to become outdated as well.
- stretchwithme 15y agoCouldn't that goal be reached in mess than four years?
- burgerbrain 15y agoMaybe. I don't have sufficient background in psychology or whatnot to say.
- pnathan 15y agoCrap, I didn't know that. My big-O notation is out of date, as is my knowledge of calculus.
- j_baker 15y agoThat's not how it worked at my university. I had some choice as far as what order I could take classes in, but everything still worked at the same pace no matter what.
- pnathan 15y agoUm. You can be taking freshman-level courses your senior year. Or, if you are up to the challenging, junior level courses your freshmen year.
- gamble 15y ago> junior level courses your freshmen year Not if the upper-level courses have prerequisites, which is typically the case in STEM programs. In my EE program the courses were scheduled so that it was impossible to graduate in less than four years. Most courses beyond freshman year had only one or two sections, taught during a specific semester. Liberal arts may be different.
- siromega 15y agoAt my university in the EE program you had to complete all freshman and sophomore level classes before you were allowed to take any junior or senior level classes. You also had to meet with an adviser towards the end of each semester before you were released to schedule classes for the next. Apparently engineers tried to circumvent the rules too many times, probably because we're always focused on optimizing solutions.
- ecspike 15y ago> Or, if you are up to the challenging, junior level courses your freshmen year. I did that. It was somewhat of a shocker to my RA to have one of his freshmen to be in his Calculus III class.