It's a tricky balance to strike.  Sometimes, diving deep into what feels like busywork is actually what builds the understanding necessary to do higher level work well, but you might not know it at first.


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> Thus, what we consider PhD level work today may be considered undergrad level work a few decades from now.

Thus for sure, but I'm hopeful that currents undergrad education will go through a phase shift from memorize-practice-regurgitate to something like ideate-test-produce.

I realize being a bit unfair to traditional education, but I really would love to see a greater emphasis on producing practical, useful work as a form of education. Currently (and certainly in my school years) education felt like a land of doing work that nobody actually needed, but which somehow benefitted me and educated me. Surely every field of study could move towards doing real things, not homework. 