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Youtube certainly has a decent amount of good content in most fields I've tried if you want it. Khan Academy seems like a good resource at the lower level. For

Youtube certainly has a decent amount of good content in most fields I've tried if you want it. Khan Academy seems like a good resource at the lower level. For university material, just add "lecture 1" to your search term and look for a playlist with ~40 items, and you'll probably find a university lecture series (I just tried it with "anatomy" and "contract law" it seems to have found some). For math and physics (and maybe other fields) there's even a decent number of graduate level courses on youtube. Unsupervised youtube sounds pretty awful for most kids, but with some guidance, if you have a curious, gifted kid, it could be a dream for them.

caseyy 2y ago
It could be a dream for them, but I think it would be an exception. Anatomy… I don’t know if you can properly learn anatomy online. Med schools have anatomy institutes with prosecutoriums ran by specialized faculty. Students learn with real cadavers. Then they learn pathological anatomy with real patients. You also learn a lot in a tactile way, for example, how big the organs are exactly and in what shape. It’s very difficult to learn anatomy to a functional degree with just slides. I think a curious kid would pick up something from an online tutorial, but they would also pick up some misconceptions. And they’d lose out on the anatomy models and practical kits schools have. I would still see YouTube learning for this kind of discipline as a serious disadvantage. For example, I could not find one lecture (in about 10 I saw just now searching for “anatomy lecture 1”) that recommends Gray’s Anatomy or similar anatomical atlas books. But they are absolutely foundational, it is the bread and butter of anatomy. 1 hour with a lecturer that would show you around such books and give a 45 minute tactile tour of a model of the human body may do much more than 100 hours of YouTube tutorials. The efficiency of learning just does not compare.
- caseyy 2y ago
  I actually went a bit off-topic here. Sorry. The kid doesn't need to properly learn anatomy, just to have quality access to the materials.

caseyy 2y ago

It could be a dream for them, but I think it would be an exception. Anatomy… I don’t know if you can properly learn anatomy online. Med schools have anatomy institutes with prosecutoriums ran by specialized faculty. Students learn with real cadavers. Then they learn pathological anatomy with real patients. You also learn a lot in a tactile way, for example, how big the organs are exactly and in what shape. It’s very difficult to learn anatomy to a functional degree with just slides. I think a curious kid would pick up something from an online tutorial, but they would also pick up some misconceptions. And they’d lose out on the anatomy models and practical kits schools have. I would still see YouTube learning for this kind of discipline as a serious disadvantage. For example, I could not find one lecture (in about 10 I saw just now searching for “anatomy lecture 1”) that recommends Gray’s Anatomy or similar anatomical atlas books. But they are absolutely foundational, it is the bread and butter of anatomy. 1 hour with a lecturer that would show you around such books and give a 45 minute tactile tour of a model of the human body may do much more than 100 hours of YouTube tutorials. The efficiency of learning just does not compare.

caseyy 2y ago
I actually went a bit off-topic here. Sorry. The kid doesn't need to properly learn anatomy, just to have quality access to the materials.