School spends a long time “wasting” our time but learning things is a great way to learn how to interpret information and make actual informed decisions

  • Colonel Panic@programming.dev
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    20 hours ago

    college too. i can’t remember most of the specifics I’ve learned, but I could jump back into any topic and get “fluent” quickly again

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      There used to be courses that acted to weed out students by being difficult and having shitty teaching as a way to weed out students who would only do the bare minimum within the structure of the class.

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        yeah my college has been infamous for that. our laws require universities to admit everyone who meets the formal requirements, and they’ve had 3x the students they could handle. so they “examed out” 2/3 of the people to get rid of them. economics, accounting and maths have been ridiculously difficult