An education that values critical thinking skills versus bland regurgitation will expand someone's intelligence in my opinion.
An education that values critical thinking skills versus bland regurgitation will expand someone's intelligence in my opinion.
Isn't most of what is 'taught', nothing more than bland regurgitation? Be it how to perform surgery for a slipped disk, how to caculate something, or case law?
An education that values critical thinking skills versus bland regurgitation will expand someone's intelligence in my opinion.
There's always an element of theoretics and book learning, but the truly valuable educations involve putting the students in complex, dynamic environments, where they can learn to problem solve, think critically, and apply everything they've learned.
Many work environments put people in complex, dynamic situations where they learn to problem solve, think critically, and apply things that they've learned. Often, a truly valuable education of that sort is not found at a school.
Many work environments put people in complex, dynamic situations where they learn to problem solve, think critically, and apply things that they've learned. Often, a truly valuable education of that sort is not found at a school.
I hate to always bring up Germany as the example for things, but this is something that they do very well. They have programs called "dualstudium" or "dual study", where you are accepted to a company and a college at the same time. For three years you alternate 6 months between studying at the college, and 6 months interning at the company as the job that you will be doing with your degree. As an example, for an engineer, after you finish the three years, you will have a bachelors degree and 18 months of on the job experience working in the actual job.Many work environments put people in complex, dynamic situations where they learn to problem solve, think critically, and apply things that they've learned. Often, a truly valuable education of that sort is not found at a school.
Many work environments put people in complex, dynamic situations where they learn to problem solve, think critically, and apply things that they've learned. Often, a truly valuable education of that sort is not found at a school.
It depends on what you are going to school for and how serious you are about learning.
I hate to always bring up Germany as the example for things, but this is something that they do very well. They have programs called "dualstudium" or "dual study", where you are accepted to a company and a college at the same time. For three years you alternate 6 months between studying at the college, and 6 months interning at the company as the job that you will be doing with your degree. As an example, for an engineer, after you finish the three years, you will have a bachelors degree and 18 months of on the job experience working in the actual job.
You just spend the past 36 months applying what you learned, so you're ready to hit the ground running.
We would all have to hold our noses if a real liberal ran. Then we could have a good laugh and breath freely when he got trounced.I will hold my nose and vote for Obama. While hopefully waiting for a real liberal to run.
True on both counts, the field of study can make a huge difference, as can the job environment. But the seriousness about learning is not limited to a school environment. I'll take a person who is serious about learning, but never went to school a day in his life over a person who isn't serious about learning and has gone to school.
Learning is not limited to school environments in any way.
That sounds like a fantastic and comprehensive education program to me.
Indeed.
I am waiting for a list of college classes that put people into complex, dynamic situations where they learn to problem solve... I think the list that will never show up, would be short.
The majority of my courses neither promoted nor discouraged such learning
For my experience, physics provides broad range and dynamic subject matters which require learning a HUGE set of skills and problem solving in order to tackle. Hell, I was rebuilding particle accelerators in my sophomore year of undergrad when all the business and philosophy majors were out getting drunk.
That's too bad. Should have went into the hard sciences, that's all we do.
The majority of my courses neither promoted nor discouraged such learning
Mine as well. Amazingly, the worst was philosophy, where you should be able to think things through, but the professor wanted people thinking the way he did, and nothing else.
I have no doubt that he, like others here, believes what he did was indeed critical thought and problem solving.
I'm actually thinking about my time as a physics major as much as my time as a psychology major. Not physics so much, but a lot of the other science classes I had to take. My chemistry and math courses were the one's that actively discouraged problem solving skills, instead focusing entirely on regurgitation of the common formulas.
Even my psychics courses paled in comparison to running a construction company, though.
Wow. Another fine example of over inflated ego.
Please tell us what math you do, and what you do with it for a career.
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