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HideoK said:

@Ail

So you pretty much learn everything you need to know before college, to get into college and then college is kind of a joke right? A couple of my friends from Japan said a similar thing about colleges in Japan. Once they got into the college they pretty much just celebrate. High school was the hardest part of their education and the most pressure.

For me it was the opposite in the US. High school I didn't need to put much effort in to get A's or B's. But in college I worked hard and put a lot of time into what I was doing. It certainly helped that I loved what I was studying - film and video editing.

And I'll share a couple of movie collection stats: I currently own 127 DVDs (down from about 200 from trade ins). And I just hit 95 blu-rays this week. Unfortunately I never watch my DVDs anymore. Standard Def just looks too bad on my HDTV even with ps3 upscaling. So I am trying to limit my blu-ray buying buying because I know at some point we'll reach resolutions that will make blu-ray look blurry and I won't watch those! Well it will look blurry on future higher resolution monitors... of course it will still have awesome picture quality on a 1920x1080 HDTV.

It's not so much about learning everything there is to know.

The idea is every year pick the 400 or so best students in a generation and get them together in school for 3 years getting them ready  to take on high responsabilities  later on, either in research, public corporation or private ones...

The idea isn't so much about teaching them stuff that they will need later on  but more about showing them a bunch of different stuff trying to interest them in different disciplines... We are not destined to become technical engineers...

 

As for prep school, yeah, the thing is for ages you have had to come with a way to select the best students among a huge group, french engineering do it through maths anfd engineering. So you get t study a lot of them, especially areas where it is easy to design hard problems to solve ( that's why you do so much group theory and matrces...). In the end you want to foster the capacity of students to use logic to solve problems and the students that rank the 400 best at the exams are not necessary those that worked the hardest in prep school but those that have the most facilities in solving those problems....

Baically until I got into my engineering school I was the best student in my class for the whole time I went to school...( I was just an average student among brilliant ones once I was in the engineering school though)