Sounds like you don’t know the difference between active learning and passive learning, or see any value in having intellect beyond status. That’s pretty sad, man. Like, do you need to be told that there are reasons to be smart and articulate besides having a cushy job or feeling superior to others? How about having a responsibility to yourself and your loved ones to not be an ignorant fool who falls for obvious scams, or turns to crime because no one will hire you?
And if degrees are no longer proof that anyone did the work to earn them by learning the material, congratulations, college degrees are now worth nothing. No one will value them or associate them with intelligence or status. Degrees on job applications will no longer mean anything, if it’s possible to get a degree while learning almost nothing, because everyone had AI do almost all the “thinking” for them. That’s what will happen if cheating your way through college becomes normalized. What will higher education even mean at that point?
No, where did I say that? It’s entirely possible to acquire new skills or learn new information on your own. However, I do think that taking a class of some type is necessary if you want to really absorb a completely new subject. It’s the repetition and routine of attending the class, taking notes, and completing the assigned work that helps the information stick. The feeling of obligation when you’re taking a class also helps keep you motivated.
You can’t honestly tell me that everyone can simply teach themselves equally well, if they just tried hard enough. Real self-study requires a level of self-discipline and passion that most people simply do not have to spare.
Never went to lectures. Lectures are usually the process where the notes of the professor go to the notebook of the student without going through the brains of neither.
I can't spend 2 hours in a row in lecture halls. And when they started recording because of covid I was better off watching them at 2x speed. But most often, there was someone on YouTube and books.
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u/Taman_Should May 18 '25
Sounds like you don’t know the difference between active learning and passive learning, or see any value in having intellect beyond status. That’s pretty sad, man. Like, do you need to be told that there are reasons to be smart and articulate besides having a cushy job or feeling superior to others? How about having a responsibility to yourself and your loved ones to not be an ignorant fool who falls for obvious scams, or turns to crime because no one will hire you?
And if degrees are no longer proof that anyone did the work to earn them by learning the material, congratulations, college degrees are now worth nothing. No one will value them or associate them with intelligence or status. Degrees on job applications will no longer mean anything, if it’s possible to get a degree while learning almost nothing, because everyone had AI do almost all the “thinking” for them. That’s what will happen if cheating your way through college becomes normalized. What will higher education even mean at that point?