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130 sats \ 2 replies \ @k00b 12 Oct 2023
As a person who received a lot of value attending college - and the traditional classroom setting - I'm shocked by how many people treat it as if it's totally pointless. "It's all online! It's free! I'll just watch the video!"
What's really odd is seeing college graduates revise their personal histories such that they would've been better off without college - even though they can't possibly know if that's the case.
Even after books became widely available, classroom education continued seeing increasing demand. Information access is necessary but not sufficient for education.
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90 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury 13 Oct 2023
I'm the same -- changed my life, but the reason it changed my life was when I accidentally got into the humanities and had a cliched "Good Will Hunting" experience. Before then I was a different cliche, the science and tech guy who just wanted to learn the information and thought everything else was useless and everybody in other fields was stupid.
I wonder if the closer you are to the "just give me the information" fields, the more you have the attitude that it's a waste of time and you glory in the idea that you can do it yourself using only free online stuff? That would make sense. Certainly from a "conveying technical info" PoV college is at a significant disadvantage to free online curricula in a number of fields, at least for a motivated student.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 13 Oct 2023
It's a good wonder. Engineering types discount human stuff which is weird because humans are the greatest thing ever engineered.
We're in this weird cultural phase where we're trying to remove humans from everything as if they're an unfortunate mess standing between us and information nirvana.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @hn OP 12 Oct 2023
This link was posted by aaronharnly 1 hour ago on HN. It received 27 points and 17 comments.
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