Never realizing there was a huge field of knowledge out there they'd never even heard about.
Then they're doing it improperly. The knowledge does not only exist in colleges and universities.
The self taught crowd likes to think they have it all figured out
Strange... because this is what I've noticed about the college-'educated' crowd. Maybe most people in general are simply imbeciles?
Besides that, there is a humbling factor in formal education which trains you to work with peers
Again, not being college-'educated' does not mean you haven't worked with people, or can't.
You're talking about self-education done wrong and comparing it to college-education done well. This is a very bad comparison. Fact is, many colleges are garbage, and many college students are also hacks.
Digging a hole in the ground with a spoon is what the person doing it makes of it. Something useless or inefficient is still useless or inefficient no matter what the person tries to make out of it. College is a one-size-fits-all solution that simply cannot accommodate everyone.
tl:dr You're throwing the baby out with the bathwater
No, they're just deciding that they'd do better elsewhere, which is a valid choice.
The big thing college gives, no matter the major, is teach the student to actually do some thinking and train them how to learn.
College does not give you any such thing. In my experience, most college-'educated' people are simply hacks. Likewise, most people in general are imbeciles. You've noticed a pattern with so-called self-educated people because imbeciles are simply common.
What's far more important is to evaluate whether or not they know what they're doing; whether or not they have a degree is simply not relevant.
Very often the self educated people want to learn the minimum necessary, skipping stuff that they naively assume they'll never use on the job (even though the industry reinvents itself constantly so that you never know what the job will require in the future).
That's very often true with college-'educated' people as well. If they believe they'll never use something, they won't try very hard to learn it and they'll never come to understand it. This is almost always true.
College is not magic. It does not magically teach people how to think (And if someone is telling you how to think, you may need to get a mind of your own). Determination and aptitude are what is important.
You might argue that we'll never hire the guy who is really smart but doesn't have a degree.
I'd actually argue that you might as well be dropping people at random if you need to get rid of some applicants (along with the really obvious duds). Degree != competence. Right now, all you're doing is getting rid of people who are obviously imbeciles, as well as people who aren't.
Most people are imbeciles, so I wouldn't be surprised if many people are surprised by this. But that said, just because people are reacting to it angrily does not mean they're surprised.
After reading his post, that sounds like a straw man. He said he believes that the technology is not progress at all, not that all progress is negative.
Then that simply shows that corruption runs deep and isn't limited to just a few countries. Obvious, but something that many people who blindly trust their government don't realize.
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Never realizing there was a huge field of knowledge out there they'd never even heard about.
Then they're doing it improperly. The knowledge does not only exist in colleges and universities.
The self taught crowd likes to think they have it all figured out
Strange... because this is what I've noticed about the college-'educated' crowd. Maybe most people in general are simply imbeciles?
Besides that, there is a humbling factor in formal education which trains you to work with peers
Again, not being college-'educated' does not mean you haven't worked with people, or can't.
You're talking about self-education done wrong and comparing it to college-education done well. This is a very bad comparison. Fact is, many colleges are garbage, and many college students are also hacks.
college is what **THE STUDENT** makes of it...
Digging a hole in the ground with a spoon is what the person doing it makes of it. Something useless or inefficient is still useless or inefficient no matter what the person tries to make out of it. College is a one-size-fits-all solution that simply cannot accommodate everyone.
tl:dr You're throwing the baby out with the bathwater
No, they're just deciding that they'd do better elsewhere, which is a valid choice.
The big thing college gives, no matter the major, is teach the student to actually do some thinking and train them how to learn.
College does not give you any such thing. In my experience, most college-'educated' people are simply hacks. Likewise, most people in general are imbeciles. You've noticed a pattern with so-called self-educated people because imbeciles are simply common.
What's far more important is to evaluate whether or not they know what they're doing; whether or not they have a degree is simply not relevant.
Very often the self educated people want to learn the minimum necessary, skipping stuff that they naively assume they'll never use on the job (even though the industry reinvents itself constantly so that you never know what the job will require in the future).
That's very often true with college-'educated' people as well. If they believe they'll never use something, they won't try very hard to learn it and they'll never come to understand it. This is almost always true.
College is not magic. It does not magically teach people how to think (And if someone is telling you how to think, you may need to get a mind of your own). Determination and aptitude are what is important.
You might argue that we'll never hire the guy who is really smart but doesn't have a degree.
I'd actually argue that you might as well be dropping people at random if you need to get rid of some applicants (along with the really obvious duds). Degree != competence. Right now, all you're doing is getting rid of people who are obviously imbeciles, as well as people who aren't.
Most people are imbeciles, so I wouldn't be surprised if many people are surprised by this. But that said, just because people are reacting to it angrily does not mean they're surprised.
Progress is always negative
After reading his post, that sounds like a straw man. He said he believes that the technology is not progress at all, not that all progress is negative.
Absolutely. Spying on allies and innocent people is simply wrong. Safety nuts cannot justify their evil.
Then that simply shows that corruption runs deep and isn't limited to just a few countries. Obvious, but something that many people who blindly trust their government don't realize.