[levocardia]

>As it turned out, the online version of MIT is not a substitute for the actual thing.

More precisely, the people motivated enough to actually do the online MIT version were often already on a high-performance trajectory, and for the people who were not, few people took the online credential seriously, despite whatever skills they acquired.

[singpolyma3]

All the courseware, classes, and schooling in the world cannot teach one to think.

[nradov]

Educators absolutely can teach students to think. The scientific method is one example of a key mental tool which provides an organized, disciplined framework for thinking. If you read a lot of stuff written before the scientific revolution it's kind of a mess because the authors literally didn't know how to think. When they occasionally got things right it was mostly by accident.

[schaefer]

Of course they can. What the heck?!?

Logic 101 changed the clarity of my thinking markedly.

[coolThingsFirst]

In what ways?