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Teaching is made of two components: access to knowledge, and motivation. Today, access to knowledge is almost entirely irrelevant: pretty much all knowledge is
by fchollet 12y ago
Teaching is made of two components: access to knowledge, and motivation. Today, access to knowledge is almost entirely irrelevant: pretty much all knowledge is freely accessible from anywhere, anytime. You just need the motivation to look it up. Teaching yourself can be easy, if only you have the drive to keep at it.
It wasn't the case in our past. In the middle ages, before the printing press, teaching was 99% passing on knowledge, and motivation was assumed to be a given. Today, in the post-internet age, access to knowledge is a given, and teaching is 99% motivation.
- yodsanklai 12y agoI think there are other components that are at least as important. You need to know what to learn and be able to organise your time properly. A teacher sets a roadmap and intermediary objectives.
- mkesper 12y agoHonestly, no. If you've got no overview, you'll not "surf the internet" but get drown in irrelevant or outdated stuff which exists in abundance.
- jacquesm 12y ago> pretty much all knowledge is freely accessible from anywhere, anytime. If only that were true. http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IT.NET.USER.P2/countries?display=map http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/IT.NET.USER.P2/countries... It's getting better every year but we're definitely not there yet.
- TheOtherHobbes 12y agoGuided presentation of knowledge. Not access to knowledge. Admittedly a lot of uni teaching is just a data dump. But the data dump at least tells which topics to investigate, and regular reviews tell you when you're not getting it. Without that you may never know why - say - compiler design is important in CS, and not just to compiler writers.