Comment on MD = oMega Dumbass
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days agoI’m in my late 30s and feel that way about the schools I went to. I studied chemistry and while some of the material was good most of my grades were about teacher pleasing and completing arbitrary assignments. They cared more about layout and formatting than about actual content.
AlexLost@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Absolutely. Universities went from institution that’s taught you how to think outside the box to a place that teaches you how to fill positions at a lab/office/whatever. They don’t want you inventing the future, they want you filling their prescriptions or fixing their phones. It might lead into the old adage that those who don’t know how to do, teach? I don’t buy that, but still…