Archive for November 6th, 2007
Education VS Netucation
A colleague and myself recently had a conversation about what was truly a more effective and useful: Education (through traditional methods such as university classes and organized methods) or netucation (the idea of self-teaching through your own methods and gathering information online from various sources).
Though education has the benefit of a more organized and structured education environment, it’s often costly as well as not completely useful information. Netucation on the other hand, allows the ’student’ go form their own lessons and learn what they want to learn (or what they can find). The biggest flaw with netucation, however, is the fact that it depends on the person and the effort they put into it whether they’re able to education themselves to a competent level.
The topic boils down to the question “Do you want somebody who thinks he can do it, or somebody who has done it?” Just something to think about
