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I disagree. I think learning to learn, and, first, learning to motivate yourself to learn is a huge part of a college education with the goal to prepare you for

I disagree. I think learning to learn, and, first, learning to motivate yourself to learn is a huge part of a college education with the goal to prepare you for a life in which boundary conditions change all the time. What happens to those students who are then in a job, tasked to solve a problem, but now expect their boss to dance around them to make it `interesting'?

JKCalhoun 5y ago
You may be right, I was speaking more broadly about education, not focused on college education. Although that does suggest a wider question, why education at all? Would you apply your same approach/attitude to elementary school education? At what point is it that we shift the burden to learn to the student? I suspect society is worse off if we "give up" on educating a large segment of the population. (And I don't mean to imply everyone needs to learn higher math, I am speaking more broadly of education.)
- bernulli 5y ago
  > why education at all? It seems I addressed that in my post? > Would you apply your same approach/attitude to elementary school education? At what point is it that we shift the burden to learn to the student? I'd say the ideal is that a person is a curious self-starter throughout their life. But we have to differentiate between different degrees ( as in `levels') of education. I think that everyone needs some fundamental understanding of the the world (history, physics), needs to be able to read and calculate simple things. And there are indeed schools who do it from an early age, like Montessori, in which students essentially pick their own projects. Also, we do give up on educating a large segment of the population eventually: not everyone has a PhD. But we're not worse off as a society, because the returns are diminishing quite a bit.

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I disagree. I think learning to learn, and, first, learning to motivate yourself to learn is a huge part of a college education with the goal to prepare you for

by bernulli 5y ago

JKCalhoun 5y ago
You may be right, I was speaking more broadly about education, not focused on college education. Although that does suggest a wider question, why education at all? Would you apply your same approach/attitude to elementary school education? At what point is it that we shift the burden to learn to the student? I suspect society is worse off if we "give up" on educating a large segment of the population. (And I don't mean to imply everyone needs to learn higher math, I am speaking more broadly of education.)
- bernulli 5y ago
  > why education at all? It seems I addressed that in my post? > Would you apply your same approach/attitude to elementary school education? At what point is it that we shift the burden to learn to the student? I'd say the ideal is that a person is a curious self-starter throughout their life. But we have to differentiate between different degrees ( as in `levels') of education. I think that everyone needs some fundamental understanding of the the world (history, physics), needs to be able to read and calculate simple things. And there are indeed schools who do it from an early age, like Montessori, in which students essentially pick their own projects. Also, we do give up on educating a large segment of the population eventually: not everyone has a PhD. But we're not worse off as a society, because the returns are diminishing quite a bit.