> What used to take a few days of research in the library reading books is now a google search away.
I own 100s of books the content of which is in no way googlable, available via ebooks, or anything else. They are undergrad level books... nothing fancy. Your comment shows you haven't been to a demanding university.
> College needs to have a more high-school approach to teaching students, delivering an active, 40-hour week of education as opposed to 1-2 hours of lecture per day.
I thought we were talking about universities. It sounds like you want to continue being spoon-fed all your life.
> Universities should be able to provide a more engaging, transformative product. While this may seem abhorrent to self-starters and outliers in this community
Uh, how about this: we leave university degrees as only available to people mentally prepared for doing hard work on their own, and we give people who pay to be force-taught fischer-price toy degrees in bright colors? Laminated in case they slobber all over them.
But there already are universities that do what you want. Degrees from them are worthless unless the person hiring doesn't know the difference; and in that case you can bet the company is full of idiots and will fail anyways.
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> What used to take a few days of research in the library reading books is now a google search away.
I own 100s of books the content of which is in no way googlable, available via ebooks, or anything else. They are undergrad level books... nothing fancy. Your comment shows you haven't been to a demanding university.
> College needs to have a more high-school approach to teaching students, delivering an active, 40-hour week of education as opposed to 1-2 hours of lecture per day.
I thought we were talking about universities. It sounds like you want to continue being spoon-fed all your life.
> Universities should be able to provide a more engaging, transformative product. While this may seem abhorrent to self-starters and outliers in this community
Uh, how about this: we leave university degrees as only available to people mentally prepared for doing hard work on their own, and we give people who pay to be force-taught fischer-price toy degrees in bright colors? Laminated in case they slobber all over them.
But there already are universities that do what you want. Degrees from them are worthless unless the person hiring doesn't know the difference; and in that case you can bet the company is full of idiots and will fail anyways.