You take the ones who want a job, I'll take the ones who don't If you give me $200k & 4 years of your life I'm pretty sure I can figure out how to well-round youhttps://twitter.com/Austen/status/1075888130450894849 …
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If you lock someone in a well-curated library with plenty of musical instruments and no TV or procrastinet for four years, they'll probably do okay.
I'm highly confident that if a person read just one really good book per week, every week, for four years, they'd be a dramatically more useful and interesting person than the typical college grad.
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If you added Japanese conversation for an hour a day you could bid that down to two books and one lecture to replace both of my degrees.
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What books and what lecture ?
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“But how will you ensure that they learn about [specific mostly useless topic that I happen to care deeply about]”
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Pirsig says something similar in ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance’ about shop taught mechanics versus those who’ve learnt by trial and error. Being an autodidact is the best way.
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This was the theory behind the Great Books program at colleges: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_books … (though the book list could use an update)
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Is it a controversial statement? I pretty much tuned out all my classes and just read a ton on my own. It was basically a 5 year vacation (disclaimer, I was simultaneously studying MatSci, ChemE, and Econ) with a couple minor obligations and a debt-financed patina of legitimacy.
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A compelling idea Mason, however, we certainly need to expound upon a criteria for "really good"
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and looking at a cost of what, ~$4-5k over those four years. That's a DEAL.
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*assuming books are purchased.
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