| HappySqurriel said: Several decades ago it was noticed that people learn far more in far less time when they study a subject they're interested in on their own than if they take part in a formal educational program ... Lots of research was done on this and a formal educational system, called inquiry based learning, was produced based on this research. Essentially, it takes a subject that a student must learn and allows them to learn it in relation to a subject they're interested in, for example a student could learn about statistics based on sports-statistics or videogame sales. Even with inquiry based learning, a motivated individual still can learn far more about a subject they're interested in from self study than they ever can from a formal educational program. |
You are right, but if you come from an enviroment, that doesn't support your learning efforts and doesn't give you any hints what to learn you won't learn at all. An educational program is supposed to give you an overview on all topics and the methods to get deeper. Good teachers will assist you in finding out more about the things your most interested in. To get deeper, that's what you actually do in university afterwards. But if you don't have a basic overview, you might get stuck in some point or need more time to go forward, because many disciplines are connected.
Anyway got to go, will come back to this entertaining thread tomorrow. Happy easter!
