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What the purpose of studying something then, if at the end you still don't understand it?
by antoinec 13y ago
What the purpose of studying something then, if at the end you still don't understand it?
- coldtea 13y agoJust the fun of it? Learning other stuff in the process? Gaining a better idea of what the thing you study entails, even if you don't understand it fully yet?
- antoinec 13y agoI don't even know how to argue with that...can't do anything against bad faith I guess
- coldtea 13y agoHuh? Where's the bad faith? What I mean is, you can study something even if you know that you won't understand it at the end of your studies. There's even stuff that you can have a full career in and still not understand completely, like Quantum Mechanics. It's not a guarantee that by studying something you'll understand it, but learning more about it can be valuable in itself. For example I can study some X technique in a language, e.g Monads, and know when to apply it and what it does, and be quite productive with it, even if I don't yet understand it (or never get to understanding type theory).