VincentYu comments on A Gamification Of Education: a modest proposal based on the Universal Decimal Classification and RPG skill trees - LessWrong

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Comment author: VincentYu 08 July 2013 12:17:41PM 7 points [-]

I'm reminded of a couple of students at a German university last year who studied all the material by dividing up the classes between them and exchanging notes, took all the exams, and passed in a few months. The university then turned around and sued them for studying too fast.

That in turn reminds me of Nick Bostrom:

As an undergraduate, I studied many subjects in parallel, and I gather that my performance set a national record. I was once expelled for studying too much, after the head of UmeƄ University psychology department discovered that I was concurrently following several other full-time programs of study (physics, philosophy, and mathematical logic), which he believed to be psychologically impossible.