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by whiletruefork
5612 days ago
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Disagree. When did people lose faith in education? I learned significantly during college in many aspects - sciences, math, politics, philosophy. This occurred both in classes and outside - but usually within the college environment (So I attribute that learning to college itself). Does going to college preclude writing a book or travelling the world? Fuck no. In fact I believe it encourages it. When smart people congregate great things happen. Maybe the poor taste for college comes from the fact that some people don't use the experience to it's fullest - but guess what? They wouldn't have done that with any of those other techniques either. |
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Seeing people use the single word "disagree" as sentence is nearly enough to make anyone lose faith!
Seriously, though, the entire article is about education. It's a common mistake to confuse schooling for education, but the two aren't as correlated as some would like to assume. I don't say this as a bitter person who never went. On the contrary, I went twice. First at a very young age, majoring in mathematics, and then again at the normal age majoring in a foreign language. Both times I was able to learn some, but neither were as productive as self study had been outside of schooling.
I regularly meet people who have spent many years formally studying a foreign language and yet struggle to understand television in that language. It's also not that uncommon to find skilled programmers, artists or writers who have not studied their field at a university.
Another common argument for schooling is that it makes well rounded people who have a basic competence in all the most fundamental fields. Sadly, this isn't true either. Most college grads are still pretty shaky on high school math. The same is true for writing.
I'm not saying that schooling is useless. It can be an excellent tool for education, particularly in some fields. However, it isn't the only way of education.