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Those that can self-educate effectively are also ones that would thrive in a proper high education system. Unfortunately, we're turning them away for various re
by waboremo 4y ago
Those that can self-educate effectively are also ones that would thrive in a proper high education system. Unfortunately, we're turning them away for various reasons (financial, lack of flexibility, etc) and filling rooms full of people who are there just because they were told to be there. It's quite horrendous, people in their 3+ years and they're still just going through the motions for the paper.
If you're not there to network and find a job, you're the odd one out. This idea of treating these institutions as places for continual higher learning is just not the norm.
It's an interesting predicament, more education for everyone is better, yet our designation of colleges/universities as the "last" required tier has stunted many people in many ways.
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- mtrower 4y ago> Those that can self-educate effectively are also ones that would thrive in a proper high education system. That might depend on what you define as 'proper'. These environments are typically tailored toward a certain median individual and if you don't fit that median (above or below), you aren't going to have a good time. In my own experience, I can generally self-educate far better than what I've found in any traditional educational environment available* to me. I just can't deal with the snail's pace of concept introduction, the shallowness of concept exploration, etc. Everything moves so slow and I just tune it out. * What I've seen of MIT's open courseware appeared interesting and well-paced to me, but that's not a route that was ever available to me.
- ZephyrBlu 4y ago> Those that can self-educate effectively are also ones that would thrive in a proper high education system Disagree. I think it's the complete opposite. Higher education is way to structured and inflexible.