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@whirly education is where you relearn the same material 12-16 times
The more times it is, the more education it is

@pwm @whirly in the 1990s I remember being at a college promotion event and someone asked if they didn't know x y an z how could they go to college and the guy straight up said "university will just teach you high school again if you need it"

College, except for a few stem fields, is four years of demonstrating you are able sit still, and of meeting people who will become colleagues in your future profession.

Hell, I did four years of undergrad and then two of grad school and they taught me absolutely nothing I did not already know.

@sun @whirly yeah I figured out in high school that the amount of new material introduced each year is extremely minimal and that you were essentially wasting time for the rest of it.
I don't know if there's really a point to noticing it because without the wholesale destruction of public education, nothing will change.
I am an advocate for the wholesale destruction of public education fwiw.

@pwm @whirly @sun I remember saying in high school that I was sick of learning about native americans every single year and someone with native ancestry got mad at me for it.

@s2208 @pwm @whirly @sun i reread john carter's "the class of 2026" and "academia is women's work" essays recently. they seem to have held up pretty well