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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All universities.

US education is massively overpriced.  You can learn 95% of real academics taught at universities with a free library card, free online courses and youtube these days.  Unfortunately in the university setting these days, 30% of the time is only devoted to academics, the other 70% is all spent on liberal and far left indoctrination.[/quote]

Peak Dunning-Kruger. [/quote]

I agree that US education is overpriced, but watching Coursera videos and reading Wikipedia articles does not require the rigor of even a mediocre college course. I had the same opinion once. Later in life, when I actually finished a degree, I was humbled and forced to change my opinion.

I’ve noticed that many people who express the “you can just read a book” mentality tend to have dropped out of college in the first couple of years, before they got to the upper-division courses and the difficulty level increased significantly. This probably contributes to their impression of college not being more valuable than reading a book.[/quote]

I have a BA and a JD and think that most humanities and intro level social sciences can be learned through a book. The question is how many people will take the time to do the reading or read the right type of books. 'you aren't learning the same thing in a popular history that you are learning in a scholarly work, but I absolutely think that you can take the syllabus of any poly sci 101, do the reading and learn just as much as if you sat through the class (probably more because if you're motived enough to actually do the reading, you are probably motivated to either read sources or other books as well). [/quote]

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