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Ebrey
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: Los Angeles
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 Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 5:37 am |
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| DecentBee wrote: |
| So glad I live in a country with free university education. |
America has the best colleges in the world, and you can go to them for free. Any top tier private school will pay all of your tuition, housing, and food if you're poor. Even underfunded public schools will offer grants or loans to poor students.
The American college system actually works quite well. If you want to make fun of Americans for broken systems, talk about health care or pre-college education. |
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Ebrey
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: Los Angeles
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| Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 1:14 am |
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| gambrinus wrote: |
| While you certainly could learn everything you learn in a classroom through self study, motivating yourself to do so without someone prompting you to do so, and the added incentive of not wasting the significant amount of money you are spending on your education, is somewhat unlikely and would take an unusual amount of drive. |
The "motivation" factor swings both ways. Someone who picks up a book on science or history from the library probably wants to read the whole thing and learn from it. Someone who takes a class in college will figure out exactly how many lectures they have to go to and how much of the textbook they must read to get a good grade. When I was in college I would often skip all of the lectures and barely read the textbook, because I could!
The two main reasons people go to college are "it's what everyone has to do" and "there's great parties, dude!" For those of us who don't care what "everyone" must do and are able to find parties outside of college, it can be more rewarding to learn on our own... when we feel like it.
Though I just spent 12 years being forced to learn shit, so I'm thinking of taking a 12 year break from it. |
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