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aetherograph · 6 months ago

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Idk if this is a controversial take but I think you should be able to take a test to prove you have the relevant knowledge for a degree and if you pass the test, you get the degree. They do that for high school, why is college any different?

Like let's not kid ourselves, school is for credentials and literally everything that needs credentials that are entirely just 'do you have this core knowledge' can be dealt with this way. Anything that has practical elements can just have the practical elements as classes you can take piecemeal, like CPR training already is, and then you also have to pass a written test.

There's very little reason we need to stick people in a company town (university campus) and pay them in scrip (grades) and make them buy from the company store (tuition) other than to erect unnecessary and inhumane and unjust barriers to knowledge.

If four years of high school can be expressed in test form, then four years of university can too.

#being able to just take an exit exam and otherwise being left alone to study how and when and for how long i wanted #is the only way I finished high school at all #give me a book that has diagrams and exercises and units and chapters and quizzes and stuff #and i will learn ANYTHING #the fact that there AREN'T textbooks readily available on what i want to learn drives me INSANE #i literally spent YEARS of my life looking for a sewing textbook!#i found it BY CHANCE while looking at vintage patterns and seeing the name of it #but like... why can't you learn library science from a textbook #it seems to me you should just be able to take a test for that to prove you know what you need to know #and then if you do you get your degree #THAT'S HOW IT WORKS ANYWAYS???#my way is just FASTER and there's no BULLSHIT #you don't have to deal with PEOPLE my way

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