Yitong
@yitong
My unpopular (at least in tech) opinion is that professional education is bad and liberal arts is gud actualy. You can pick up job skills anytime anywhere, but you can realistically only sit deeply with history, philosphy, and the arts when you're under 20.
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Yitong
@yitong
it's never too late to learn to code. but it often is too late for people to learn to think. once you're used to thinking wrong, it's hard to think right again
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krel
@krel
generally agree, but i also think youre underestimating just how malleable the brain is at a young(er) age -- becoming good at any profession (incl coding) in your late 30s is not easy and for most people not even within reach youll see soon :) (and thats setting the whole family/kids thing aside, which makes it seriously challenging to even find the hours to learn something new)
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Cooki
@cooki
yes
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Brad Rumbl
@rumblart
Brings up that idea that schools are designed not to teach you how to think, but what to think. And the notion that education stops once you're no longer in an educational setting, and this is where autodidacts thrive whilst others stagnate.
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gFam.live (UrbanGladiator)
@gfam
I actually don't mind this take. I see this in tech all the time, people are really good at the How but don't think about the Why.
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Ryan J. Shaw
@rjs
At that age I had zero insight into how naive and limited my thinking was and I read plenty of philosophy. I'd read it and think those guys don't know what they're talking about, or it went over my head. We're not all cut out to be great thinkers, I've accepted that I'm not 😄
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