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0 pointsjstarfish2y ago0 comments

> the great British bake off is a wildly popular show and yet almost none of the people I know who are fans care to even try to learn baking themselves.

You're missing the point of teaching anything. Teaching is (literally) the act of grooming someone to be receptive to an idea. It's different from training, which is the act of coaching someone into doing something.

When the day comes where one of those fans does try to bake something, everything they saw on the show is going to resonate in a way it wouldn't for someone without the exposure.

I don't bake, but I now know two ways in which greasy meat leads to a soggy bottom.

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shortrounddev22y ago· 2 in thread

Most people go to college for training; they could not care less about receptivity to ideas. There is this myth that college is about expanding one's mind and worldview. It is not. It is about improving and ensuring one's economic class. Only professors forsake a job in the real world for these ideals. Everybody else is there to secure their spot in the middle class, and they don't care about superfluous information

jstarfishOP2y ago

> Most people go to college for training; they could not care less about receptivity to ideas

And they come out of it disappointed that they don't actually know how to do anything.

> There is this myth that college is about expanding one's mind and worldview.

I used to think that was a myth too. So much so I did it twice. College is wasted on the young.

It took decades of experience for me to recognize how much of my college experience consisted of being fed blatant lies meant to foster critical thought.

shortrounddev22y ago

> And they come out of it disappointed that they don't actually know how to do anything.

Mostly because, as the OP post points out, the lecturing model is very bad at teaching most things. College's never innovate

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