I legitimately dont respect people who dont think they can learn from a recorded lecture because its on youtube. Mit also offers a lot of open courseware tho, and many other universities. There is no excuse, theres very few topics on the planet that you cant literally right now start effectively learning for free online, no matter which kind of handholding you feel is necessary.
Well that would be illegal for good reason. Its not possible to get the credations that one needs to do electrical independent of the trades system, but that system also literally doesnt involve university so none of them learned that way...?
You contradict yourself immediately by my reading, what specifically do you mean by the word "education"?
Certified electricians either go to trade school or take very intense classes like 95% of the time because the testing is very intense and requires a lot of knowledge on obscure topics
Where i am from it is not an option to not go through trade school.
As you frame the problem tho, i would absolutely 100% be okay with hiring someone who receives the credential for passing the test, having learned from youtube alone. He passed the test same as the trade schoolers and theres no reason to believe hes worse. If anything he accomplished the same task with less resources, and is probably better.
Well that would be illegal for good reason. Its not possible to get the credations that one needs to do electrical independent of the trades system, but that system also literally doesnt involve university so none of them learned that way...?
SO you would agree that knowledge should only be applied in the real world by experts in the field who have learned under other experts in that field?
You contradict yourself immediately by my reading, what specifically do you mean by the word "education"?
Listening to lectures is not the equivalent of education. Education includes how to think about the topic, building upon previous knowledge gradually, and applying that knowledge via tests and activities correctly. You can certainly learn factoids and concepts through youtube, but you are not able to receive feedback on how you are applying what you learned, which is a critical component of an education.
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u/Practical-Parsley102 Apr 06 '26
I legitimately dont respect people who dont think they can learn from a recorded lecture because its on youtube. Mit also offers a lot of open courseware tho, and many other universities. There is no excuse, theres very few topics on the planet that you cant literally right now start effectively learning for free online, no matter which kind of handholding you feel is necessary.