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The purpose of the university has always been certification. “You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library."
by jimbokun 6mo ago
The purpose of the university has always been certification.
“You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library."
- Will Hunting
- CBarkleyU 6mo agoNot always [1] Having gone to university in Germany, there are glimpses of this ideal, but they're mostly faint memories enshrined on faded plaques around the campus. I did have an old geezer prof (90+ years old) that went to the very same university over half a century ago and showed us his diploma: greek, latin, humanities, ... for a technical diploma, no less! I do still cringe a little when we get newjoiners fresh out of university proudly proclaiming "Yeah, no can do, we didn't learn that at university". Yes, obviously, university is not an apprenticeship. You learn how to learn and then apply that to unknown-to-you problems. Oddly enough ChatGPT seems to have brought a change to that mindset, but Im not sure if it did so for the better. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldtian_model_of_higher_education https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldtian_model_of_higher_ed...
- ThrowawayR2 6mo agoDo let us know where we can find a chemistry lab or biology lab or the facilities used for various other engineering undergraduates in a public library.
- ponector 6mo agoHow about nuclear physics? Every undergraduate has access to the fission materials, right? Student doesn't need a specialized laboratory to learn things.
- ThrowawayR2 6mo agoSeveral universities, including MIT, do have their own nuclear reactor on site for teaching and research.
- Ygg2 6mo agoJust buy old clocks and extract the uranium in them...
- jimbokun 6mo agoThose are for the grad students and faculty.
- ThrowawayR2 6mo agoHaving taken lab classes for undergraduates extensively, I assure you they're not. Maybe liberal arts students and programmers can self-educate at a public library but many STEM fields cannot.
- illiac786 6mo agoThat is utter bs. Even if that quote would only be meant for insane geniuses, it would still be debatable. It’s a movie, let’s go back to reality.
- potsandpans 6mo agoYou are aware that good will hunting is a movie from 1997, yes?
- a96 6mo ago[dead]