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Why the fuck does it cost money to get smarter??
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Institution based learning is unbelievably more effective though. Professional educators, structured courses and external reviews of ones learning are not only helpful, for higher levels of education they are vital. No amount of going to the library will make you a surgeon or an engineer or a scientist.
Not denying that. But there is more knowledge found than at a university. My arguement was that you are paying the teacher whom has first hand experience they can share to their students, not strictly education itself.
And you believe the burden of that payment should be placed on the young and uneducated?
Not sure where you thought I was implying that
Institution based learning also creates a bunch of barriers primarily because "learning" is not the main purpose of a modern university.
Those "professional educators" are often researchers moonlighting as educators, experts on their field, but rarely in addition to education. Their metrics are also not how well is material "taught" but to achieve a standard distribution of grades which can result in some real perverse incentives.
Those "structured courses" have the same fundamental design flaw of primary education. They aren't designed primarily for learning, they're designed for factory work and obedience.
That's not touching on the more critical part of financial incentives and how financial strain, and excessive amounts of stress in general, is not conducive to a learning environment.
Source: self made electric engineer thanks to the library and the dump.