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what's your take on university as opposed to learning by doing? how do they complement each other?
by ThouYS 5y ago
what's your take on university as opposed to learning by doing? how do they complement each other?
- leijurv 5y agoI am not done with university yet, so I don't speak confidently. But I'm afraid I have no special perspective, I just echo what I hear a lot: Learning by doing is probably the most important, but structured courses provide a theoretical and practical foundation that fills in a lot of important gaps that I would have had if I were only self taught.
- kbenson 5y agoThat echoes my own thoughts as someone that's been out of school for a long time and worked with people with and without degrees. There's some gaps without a degree, but not usually so much that they can't be overcome with a little time and effort, and I don't think it usually matters much. Connections from university though... I suspect that can be extremely useful, but didn't leverage that in my own time there, so can only guess as to how much (and also I didn't go to an ivy league school or anything where it could have made an even larger difference).