• weirdwallace75@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    And it doesn’t stop at high school. A Bachelor’s in a specific field is only partly about the facts and concepts, and the rest is about how to research and evaluate sources in that field. Does someone with a Bachelor’s in Computer Science know how to implement Shellsort right off the bat from memory? Not unless they did it in a whiteboard interview, and fuck those things. No, they know how to look it up and implement it in a specific language, and can probably figure out its big-O complexity.

    Knowing what a good source looks like is a skill, and must be learned.

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      1 year ago

      Agree, but there are still some fields that are taught in detail at university (instead of “here’s the basics, figure out the rest by yourself”) - like medicine for example.

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        Medicine is kind of a special case in that there’s pre-med for the undergraduate and then a post-graduate program that mixes classroom work and an apprenticeship program. You obviously have to learn a lot in both of those settings, but doctors look stuff up all the damn time in their clinics and they take plenty of continuing education courses throughout their careers.

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          Even then, a big part of medical school is learning how to learn. Doctors are (ideally) expected to be lifelong students: always learning as their field advances.