been doing some retrospection recently, now that i'm much more grown up and have learned much more about "how to learn"-- the way the classes were designed back in school made it nearly impossible to actually learn anything in them??
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like, you have a lecture, right? but the class doesn't actually teach you "how to do things" (you can only really ever learn that by doing the thing itself). at best, you can collect facts and apply them later when you do the actual work
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then, "later" is a homework problem set. but if you misunderstand how to solve a problem, you don't know until weeks later, at which point you are already on the next chapter, which you are failing miserably because your understanding of the previous chapter was incomplete
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the biggest scam of STEM college is how they make you spend thousands of hours of your life struggling through lectures and homework and claim you're "learning"
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how to learn things effectively: spaced repetition (preferably of the actual activity you are trying to learn) and immediate feedback (so you know when you're wrong). guess what almost none of my classes had
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make education startup please
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