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Re:MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX to ed-tech firm 2U by inputvolch on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @09:32AM (#27675532)
Education is like a sewer? No matter what I put into a sewer, my guess is that it's going to come out covered in shit.
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Re:MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX to ed-tech firm 2U by lisper on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @09:44AM (#27675672)
It is an allusion to an old joke. Here is the original source: https://youtu.be/w8d0GwzY6cA?t=2210
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Re:MIT and Harvard agree to transfer edX to ed-tech firm 2U by dkarl on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @09:40AM (#27675614)
Maybe the point is that what you get out of it depends a great deal on what everybody around you puts into it, a depressing fact that online learning can hopefully mitigate at least a little bit for people who have access to it.
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