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I'm fine with anti-college sentiment as long as it's not anti-learning sentiment. College and structured, traditional, classroom based learning works for some p
by marknutter 14y ago
I'm fine with anti-college sentiment as long as it's not anti-learning sentiment. College and structured, traditional, classroom based learning works for some people and it slows others down. All of the material learn in a CS degree can't be learned independently outside of college. Any benefit college gives to a person is going to be subjective and highly anecdotal, like "professor interaction" or being around like-minded peers as though people can't learn from others without being at college. Often times, if those concepts are learned outside of college they are learned out of necessity and immediately applied, rather than pushed to the back of one's mind on the off chance they might come in handy sometime down the road.
The OP's beef wasn't with college - it was with the false belief that college is the only way to become successful in life.
- slurgfest 14y agoI don't know that anyone says it is the "only" way. The real claim is that college offers a significant advantage which it would be foolish to turn down. Hard to say how most High School students would be able to accurately gauge that college would be useless for them ahead of time, except if they already couldn't handle academics.
- marknutter 14y ago"The real claim is that college offers a significant advantage which it would be foolish to turn down." That sure makes it sound like it's the only way.
- slurgfest 14y agoOf course not, because it is not implied that it is impossible to do without, only that it is an advantage and that it is prudent to take all the advantages you can afford.
- cantankerous 14y agoCollege is also too much for some people who have very specific goals that don't include a well-rounded education.
- slurgfest 14y agoCollege isn't necessarily about well-roundedness at all. If your very specific goal is to become (say) a doctor, lawyer or professional engineer then you don't have much of an option of avoiding school (though you can certainly take a pass on a liberal arts degree, that isn't college in general).