> the magic happens in person, when the teacher presents
Yeah, I see that repeated often - usually by teachers - but that is definitely not my experience. Magic happens when I read and do the exercises. Teachers are a distraction unless they are of an exceptional level (think 3Blue1Brown).
Modern online education made this very clear for me. Sure, many online courses have teachers "presenting" and it is indeed nice to have a Nobel-prize-winning world-famous professor explain things to you in a novel way. No doubt about it. But 99,9999% of teachers I encounter in the real world are not anywhere near that level and I'm better off reading and doing exercising and, maybe, occasionally asking a question but I don't care for the "performance art" part of it one bit. I am literally doing my master this way and it completely beats anything I did in "real school" which consisted of distraction stacked on distraction on yet more distraction.
Your mileage, of course, will vary depending on your level of neural divergence and topic of study. Liberal arts like philosophy lean (slightly) heavier on interaction than, say, CS, but even in those cases your time is best spent reading a metric shit ton of books and processing them through introspective thought and exercises then watching performance art.
For the life of me I cannot phantom why teachers keep recreating the same stuff over and over again. Networking courses have been done thousands of time. Just settle on a nice basic course presented by a world-famous type and let the students do their thing without performance art/justifying your job.
Nothing comes close to just doing exercises and reading. I know I'm harping on the same topic here but teachers keep insisting we go to "classes" - sitting with 30+ noisy monkeys next to me - to watch them do their performance art and it is has become a major trigger for me for various reasons. A regular class with such a performance artist reminds me of people superficially interacting with an LLM and thinking they now master a topic. It's fun to watch and the teacher might mean well, but after an hour or so of this nothing has been gained and could be better spent studying and doing exercises. Have I mentioned exercises are important?
I know this is unpopular and I know I might be wired strangely compared to you. Also: I do not intend to come across as mean. All the teachers I met were very nice people and they do mean well. I'm just being straight.
Yeah, I see that repeated often - usually by teachers - but that is definitely not my experience. Magic happens when I read and do the exercises. Teachers are a distraction unless they are of an exceptional level (think 3Blue1Brown).
Modern online education made this very clear for me. Sure, many online courses have teachers "presenting" and it is indeed nice to have a Nobel-prize-winning world-famous professor explain things to you in a novel way. No doubt about it. But 99,9999% of teachers I encounter in the real world are not anywhere near that level and I'm better off reading and doing exercising and, maybe, occasionally asking a question but I don't care for the "performance art" part of it one bit. I am literally doing my master this way and it completely beats anything I did in "real school" which consisted of distraction stacked on distraction on yet more distraction.
Your mileage, of course, will vary depending on your level of neural divergence and topic of study. Liberal arts like philosophy lean (slightly) heavier on interaction than, say, CS, but even in those cases your time is best spent reading a metric shit ton of books and processing them through introspective thought and exercises then watching performance art.
For the life of me I cannot phantom why teachers keep recreating the same stuff over and over again. Networking courses have been done thousands of time. Just settle on a nice basic course presented by a world-famous type and let the students do their thing without performance art/justifying your job.
Nothing comes close to just doing exercises and reading. I know I'm harping on the same topic here but teachers keep insisting we go to "classes" - sitting with 30+ noisy monkeys next to me - to watch them do their performance art and it is has become a major trigger for me for various reasons. A regular class with such a performance artist reminds me of people superficially interacting with an LLM and thinking they now master a topic. It's fun to watch and the teacher might mean well, but after an hour or so of this nothing has been gained and could be better spent studying and doing exercises. Have I mentioned exercises are important?
I know this is unpopular and I know I might be wired strangely compared to you. Also: I do not intend to come across as mean. All the teachers I met were very nice people and they do mean well. I'm just being straight.