Hello Wonderful People!
How is your day going?
I'm gonna give my feedback right away on @ecotrain's QOTW- UNIVERSITY Vs YOUTUBE!
To be honest, I was a little surprised by seeing this 'Vs' thing. But, I understand it's just a fun question. Because for me, "There is still no alternative to University Education."
No matter how advanced we are in terms of technology or online/internet growth, no matter how much available different knowledge sources are, there would always be a need for 'Academic Learning.' And more preciously University Education.
It's not just because I completed my Graduation and Masters from a Reputed University but rather this is what I feel observing around. University education is not just about 'Study', there are many more things related to it.
For me, University is the 'SeedBed' for the students. It's a place of development, growing thyself. It's a place where we learn 'what we should learn.' It's like a guideline, a pathway maker to help us decide what we should do, how we should do, what we should search for.
I'm not opposing online education anyway. Youtube is an enriched world. We can get to learn 'whatever' we want. I don't know how many times I do search for something I did not understand from my study book. To learn anything new Youtube is the first thing we visit. But I think self-learning/acquiring knowledge from different sources is to enrich ourselves more, to strengthen our knowledge. But without a guideline, a specific structural study, an academic environment; we will be "Jack of all trades, master of none"
University education can not cover-up everything, there are still needs lots of improvement in the education system like including more tech, life-related topics, experiments ie. And our teachers also need to cope up with all those things. It's not possible to gather everything in 4 years. But we can know how to gather more. It's like University lightens the fire in us to explore more. And we got the opportunity to explore more online/youtube as per our desire. The money and time we invest in University totally worth it. There is no boundary between learning outside our formal education.
Youtube can be a great place to learn 'how to' or different 'experiments' 'deep understanding' of certain things. I usually search for different motivation related topics, HR-related topics (for my job), nowadays parenting, child development topics also. And, yeah, I also enrolled myself in different online training sessions or learning, mostly because of my job. For me, these are an easy way to access different study materials.
Photos: My own capture from my University of Dhaka and a small part of my book collection.
If you want to take part on this disscussion you can find more Here on @ecotain's QOTW.
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