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Why is this rubbish being linked by hacker news? This is a barely-comprehensible, illogical rant. There's nothing wrong with being self-taught, but I'm getting
by ors23 18y ago
Why is this rubbish being linked by hacker news? This is a barely-comprehensible, illogical rant. There's nothing wrong with being self-taught, but I'm getting sick of this anti-intellectualism. There's nothing wrong with learning how to teach yourself more efficiently, either, which is precisely what modern liberal education proscribes. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_education http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_education)
- TrevorJ 18y agoPractice and principle are often to very different things.
- ors23 18y agoAnd..? Please state what you're trying to insinuate, so the rest of us can learn from your knowledge.
- TrevorJ 18y agoI'm saying that the strict definition of liberal education is not of much use when discussing the actual state of higher education because we can't assume an absolute corollary between the two.
- phony_identity 18y agoTip: http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/proscribe http://thesaurus.reference.com//browse/proscribe