Everything I learned which I consider important to my life- politics, psychology, sociology, history, I’ve taught my self long after my college days. Self education with degrees offered via timed standardized examination over the internet will be the future of education.
Yeah. And I don’t mean to slur the university system either.
I was a kid from the sticks and it really did open my eyes to what was out there to be learned, even if I didn’t really get around to learning it then (I’m still at it now, for that matter).
But I have family members and lots of friends who work in a university systems. Now especially so much of the time and money (which is in short supply) seem misdirected, in facilities, paperwork, bureaucracy, mountains of regulations, etc. etc., like everything else involving the government.
I bet I could spend five years reading and discussing books with Jim Noble (and not even touch the medical stuff, which fascinates me) and learn something significant every day. Whether it would benefit him at all is another question—lol.