If you can crawl into a public library you can learn enough to be a nuclear physicist ... if you have the desire and drive ...
Try going into an interview saying “I learned it all at the library.”
I’m sure you’ll get hired if you say,”I went to the library a lot” in your interview.
“If you can crawl into a public library you can learn enough to be a nuclear physicist ... if you have the desire and drive ... “
Public libraries are almost void of that technical information.
Well you can read it all at the library. Doesn’t mean you can do it. I’m all for self taught but there are certain things you get in a school you can’t get from books. Most importantly somebody to look at what you wrote down and say “you forgot to carry the 3”.
Yes, indeed! The only thing missing is a reliable testing system for certifying the knowledge acquired.
In the STEM courses, very little changes from year to year. Used textbooks and the Internet would be fine. Obviously, laboratory experience and clinical rotations require brick and mortar but the rest doesn’t.
The associate who bought my practice owed a quarter of a million in student debt! It should cost a mere $25,000 to become a doctoral level professional, not a quarter a **million**!