I got a computer science degree in 3 months for less than $5000 (2020)

Re:I got a computer science degree in 3 months for less than... by thaumasiotes on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @04:28PM (#31185337)

> I've met people who dropped out of high school to attend university full time who struck me as shockingly ignorant of e.g. history.

This is an interesting complaint. I would argue that everyone whose knowledge of history consists of the entirety of their high school curriculum, with nothing forgotten, is shockingly ignorant of history.

After reading one relatively short book on the history of China, ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/0465015808/ ), I had a Chinese high school student remark to me on how unusual it was for her to find someone who could talk about Chinese history. But I was meeting only the lowest possible bar.

If someone is shockingly ignorant of history, that's not because they missed high school; it's a problem that high school doesn't try to address and isn't intended to.

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Re:I got a computer science degree in 3 months for less than... by cperciva on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @05:03PM (#31185779)

I'm not saying that high school gives people a great education about history. But I would expect anyone graduating high school to be able to give general answers to questions like "which countries were we fighting against in world war 2" and "where was the Roman empire".

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Re:I got a computer science degree in 3 months for less than... by thfuran on Wednesday April 27, 2022 @06:06PM (#31186408)

>But I was meeting only the lowest possible bar.

A low bar but certainly not the lowest possible bar.

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