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I get where you're coming from, but at this point I'm highly skeptical of university's value-add. From my perspective most faculty add very little value, so in

I get where you're coming from, but at this point I'm highly skeptical of university's value-add. From my perspective most faculty add very little value, so in terms of learning and exploration there's not much point in paying boatloads of money to attend when I could go through the material (Or similar) myself if I'm interested.

wolverine876 5y ago
Just a suggestion: Try one class with a good professor and see what the difference is. Expert mentoring is a thing, outside academia too. How do you even know what books to read? > I'm highly skeptical of university's value-add This new social trend - which suits the reactionary movement very well (which doesn't mean you are a reactionary - is really tragic. We are just destroying so much in instututions and potential, so many years and resources lost, and mostly just to destroy things. It's not hard to grasp that knowledge and learning move us forward, and it's better with experts.
- ZephyrBlu 5y ago
  I know how valuable mentoring is, but a large part of the problem is that finding a "good" professor or mentor is difficult. With people online you can at least vet them well and have access to their knowledge and advice. Even though it's not the same as a mentor I think learning from an expert online is better than having a mediocre mentor. > It's not hard to grasp that knowledge and learning move us forward, and it's better with experts I agree knowledge and learning are important, but I no longer feel like university is the primary place for that unless you want to go into academia. Internet communities feel like better environments than university at this point. This doesn't feel like a purposeful destruction of university through a social trend though. The institutions are destroying themselves.

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I get where you're coming from, but at this point I'm highly skeptical of university's value-add. From my perspective most faculty add very little value, so in

by ZephyrBlu 5y ago

wolverine876 5y ago
Just a suggestion: Try one class with a good professor and see what the difference is. Expert mentoring is a thing, outside academia too. How do you even know what books to read? > I'm highly skeptical of university's value-add This new social trend - which suits the reactionary movement very well (which doesn't mean you are a reactionary - is really tragic. We are just destroying so much in instututions and potential, so many years and resources lost, and mostly just to destroy things. It's not hard to grasp that knowledge and learning move us forward, and it's better with experts.
- ZephyrBlu 5y ago
  I know how valuable mentoring is, but a large part of the problem is that finding a "good" professor or mentor is difficult. With people online you can at least vet them well and have access to their knowledge and advice. Even though it's not the same as a mentor I think learning from an expert online is better than having a mediocre mentor. > It's not hard to grasp that knowledge and learning move us forward, and it's better with experts I agree knowledge and learning are important, but I no longer feel like university is the primary place for that unless you want to go into academia. Internet communities feel like better environments than university at this point. This doesn't feel like a purposeful destruction of university through a social trend though. The institutions are destroying themselves.