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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 take it you weren't a STEM major? Those are in fact heavily book-based. See: https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/myprojects/mit-challenge-2/[/quote]

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