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Northwestern students blocked from enrollment after refusing controversial antisemitism training
(www.theguardian.com)
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Yeah, you end up "doing your own research" and just falling into right-wing grifts and bullshit because if you lack background in a field, it's pretty damn hard to do actual meaningful research.
College isn't absolutely necessary to learn, but for most people, it really is. Or even if people don't fall into right wing fever swamps, they often cannot distinguish between appropriate sources. You try to teach yourself engineering, and all you end up doing is watching a bunch of infotainment engineering youtube channels.
What information are professors giving you that you can't get anywhere else?
As far as history is concerned, everything they teach should come from a source other than the professor.
Your history course boils down to them walking you through a textbook. If you can read and comprehend what you're reading, then the professor is unnecessary.
But hey, you already realized this, right?
It's not about the information itself. All of human knowledge is at your fingertips. Unfortunately, that knowledge is buried under an ocean of bullshit. And if you haven't studied in a field, you likely cannot tell the difference between quality sources and bullshit.
You bemoan a course that consists of studying a textbook, but how do you even know what textbook to read? If you do not know the field, how do you know that it's an accurate work of reliable history and not some right-wing slop like PragerU? And it's not just reading the book. It's knowing what parts to read, preparing writings, participating in discussions, and a thousand other activities that are designed to advance the learning objectives of a course. Hell, just having a course with a fixed schedule to it can be immensely beneficial to most learners. Studying is hard. It's time consuming. And it doesn't generate any immediate returns in your life. Most people who try to teach themselves a subject end up learning less in five years than they could in a single semester of enrolling in one or two college courses. When you're teaching yourself something, it's far too easy to just put off the hard dull work til tomorrow or avoid it all together.
For the love of god, without looking it up, do you even know how to pronounce the word pedagogy?
If you had taken even a single course in education or course design, you would know there is so much more to designing a course than simply reading a textbook. I've taught and designed numerous college courses. If you think it's just a matter of reading from a textbook, you are standing atop a mountain of ignorance.
I'm lazy and I don't feel like putting more effort into arguing with your other nonsense, but you can just look up what textbooks are used by each institution.
I'm going to ignore you now because you're not worth my time or energy. I hope you have fun defending how you wasted money on something you could've done yourself for free; it's how you people operate.