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Originally Posted by htb
Formal education is important. Self-education and experience, gained afterward, are more important.
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I agree. Formal education can often be a way to supplement/enhance your understanding you would get otherwise.
I realize the timing of this thread was funny. But I was really trying to see if paying one's own way through school made one appreciate it more.
The link I posted seemed like a college professor's view on things. I just posted it as food for thought.
Subs. started another thread on Formal education.
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Originally Posted by TheBeatGoesOn
Can't say formal education has done me a lot of good. Unless I am around the knowledge and utilizing it on a regular basis, it will escape me. I tend to have a weird selective memory that will remember random stuff that others don't but I have found a lot of the knowledge I have learned to ace a test has since left my head.
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I think most people are the same way. Luckily, my field of study and what I do for a career are related. Unfortunately, the theory I learned is often greatly inadequate for the problems I face, but it opens up avenues of thought for attacking a problem that I probably would not have come up with otherwise.
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Originally Posted by substitute
I'm not sure what "to pay" means in that context... clarify please?
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Well, the simplest is if you actually paid for it. But I suppose having to maintain a GPA or grades to get the money is kind-off like having a job. If the second part doesn't make sense, then just interpret as "did you pay for school?" That is, instead of your parents, or rich aunt/uncle, grandparent, etc.