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The point of a university -- it's in the name -- is to learn a universal method of acquiring knowledge. Ask any education researcher and they will tell you the
by chx 3y ago
The point of a university -- it's in the name -- is to learn a universal method of acquiring knowledge. Ask any education researcher and they will tell you the dirty secret: it doesn't matter what you major in. Whether you learn this method by studying parts of the human body or the intricacies of computer code is immaterial. For (almost?) all sciences, it'll be outdated before you leave the place anyways.
So indeed, the end cert doesn't quite matter so much as going through the process.
- WalterBright 3y agoLearning math rewires your brain. Math doesn't get outdated. > is to learn a universal method of acquiring knowledge It's about learning how to think. Acquiring knowledge and solving problems are two different things. Caltech is about the latter. Like learning how to build a rocket is not the goal, it's about figuring out how to build a rocket.