kraken wrote:
[grave doubts... questions this and that... educational system must still therefore be good.]
There is much which I have said which is generally true on a mathematic basis alone and not merely a part of my own experience.
*All costs of a college are put upon the students, including those which are not particularly related to the education of the students, so the efficiency in terms of price is automatically lacking by default in comparison to a person purchasing all of their own materials, doing the same work, and not paying for the operation of a college.
*As more and more people flock towards college and acquire degrees for themselves, there is thus higher supply of degree holding job hunters which decreases the demand for any single degree holder amongst employers within their field of inquiry and "overqualifies" them for most other jobs.
*Time is finite and therefore must be divided amongst two basic tasks in education: studying the material of the subject and the completion of assignments. Within a college scheme there are arbitrary deadlines with narrow limits which decrease the amount of time available to study the material prior to the completion of assignments. In an autodidactic scheme such arbitrary deadlines may either be self imposed or non-existent, allowing for more freedom to focus upon studying the material prior to testing one's knowledge of that material.
08 Jan 2011, 5:34 am
