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Good Will Hunting I grew up in a rough neighborhood, in high school my view was limited and I thought there is no going out of trouble, being a black sheep of

• jjice 3y ago
  That's such a fantastic movie. Of course Will is a special case and is a gifted person, but the line at the bar early in the movie: > You wasted $150,000 on an education you could've got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library. Is just fantastic. A public library isn't a complete replacement for a college education, but in terms of knowledge gained, books are the _core_ of learning. Most of the learning I did in college came from reading a text book, or the instructor going over information in the text book. Assignments are important to help apply ideas, but many books have problem sets too. Books (and other resources like video these days) are such an incredibly valuable resource and we've done a great job at making them available via libraries (of course there are the issues we hear about with publishers trying to fight against libraries, but in general, libraries are still fantastic). Reading has been a key to my educating myself post university. The only thing more valuable that I've found is real world experience.
  • VirusNewbie 3y ago
    Books alone won't cover it, but can get you pretty far. My education came from library books, used bookstores, IRC, and Open Source work, and now I'm senior level at a FAANG amongst a bunch of PhDs.