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>As it turned out, the online version of MIT is not a substitute for the actual thing. More precisely, the people motivated enough to actually do the online MI
by levocardia 5mo ago
>As it turned out, the online version of MIT is not a substitute for the actual thing.
More precisely, the people motivated enough to actually do the online MIT version were often already on a high-performance trajectory, and for the people who were not, few people took the online credential seriously, despite whatever skills they acquired.
- singpolyma3 5mo agoAll the courseware, classes, and schooling in the world cannot teach one to think.
- schaefer 5mo agoOf course they can. What the heck?!? Logic 101 changed the clarity of my thinking markedly.
- coolThingsFirst 5mo agoIn what ways?
- nradov 5mo agoEducators absolutely can teach students to think. The scientific method is one example of a key mental tool which provides an organized, disciplined framework for thinking. If you read a lot of stuff written before the scientific revolution it's kind of a mess because the authors literally didn't know how to think. When they occasionally got things right it was mostly by accident.