So my own experience is I learned gobs and gobs and GOBS of stuff in college and gradual school.
Of course you did. But you aren't thinking opportunity costs here. People learn gobs and GOBS of stuff outside of college and high school. Like this site shouldn't exist if this wasn't so. ;)
And since outside of school people they learn stuff they actually use often (they basically are forced to do spaced repetition) or are interested in they arguably retain far more of that. Look at things school is supposed to teach us, like learning a foreign language.
Since I'm linking to Caplan I also recommend you read:
I interview for engineering positions at my company. We have information on where applicant came from and what degree we have, but our interviews are still primarily technological tests. We want to know if applicant knows CDMA and LTE and 802.11xxx and GPS and AWGN and dB and Matlab and all the things we associate with people who get stuff done. As a participant with others in the interviewing of others, I have NEVER heard a discussion of the quality of school or which degree the applicant had.
Remind me what fraction of students go into STEM fields. Then consider if this is true for people who hire say lawyers.
So my own experience is I learned gobs and gobs and GOBS of stuff in college and gradual school.
Of course you did. But you aren't thinking opportunity costs here.
Well, yes I am. I quit a job as a technician at bell labs to go get my PhD at Caltech. As much as I was learning as a tech at Bell Labs, I was not going to be given my own projects to pound on, was not even allowed to write my own papers by my boss (this varied across bosses at bell labs, mine published work I had contributed to without my name on the publications, telling me I was getting pa...
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