All those hours studying textbooks at the library, practice tests at Khan Academy, lectures at Coursera, videos from University Youtube channels, and quizes on educational apps are totally useless if you don't have creditable proof. For example, I have to take CLEP exams or else get held back because the university doesn't trust "I studied it online bro, trust me". Moral of the story, self-taught is basically pointless unless you back it up with credentials.
Yeah. The fruit of internalization are not externalized by default.
>>16779280>I have to take CLEP examsSo take CLEP exams.If you actually learned this shit that shouldn't be a problem now should it?
>>16779289> that shouldn't be a problemIt's more so an inefficiency problem. The topics of those exams are so narrow, and they're expensive. The prices for those exams are based on profit rather than scarcity as each exam is practically identical. The education system is like a credentialism system, and in fact, the whole labor economy is like a credentialist system rather than a merit one. However, those two get conflated (wrongfully). The conflation of the two is annoying because it's often based on whether you had the money for the exams or the loans, grants, scholarships for a degree. In other words, if you're poor, hitting the books isn't gonna help much. Have to be rich and have a surface level understanding of the topics to get a passing grade or score.
>>16779285Thanks, and maybe the externalization is more important than internalization. In the same way that people, in their actions, care more about appearances (e.g., entertainment, beauty, big juicy cheeseburgers) than the invisible ideas (e.g., history, character, the meaning or significance. In this context, it doesn't really matter if you have the invisible history of learning; it matters if you have the visible stamp of approval from some official
>>16779280Academic institution have a power incentive to be in control of what you learn, tautologically, because that is how they have power.If you defy them by going your own way, it's in their interest to punish your for it and to hinder your progress in society.
>>16779294>they're expensiveMore expensive than a semester taking the course?Either way: the whole thing is about having something to show for your knowledge.Any sufficiently bored NEET can read Wikipedia articles and watch videos in between gooning sessions. But nobody wants to hire a terminally online know-it-all. Either get that paper tacked to your wall or find sone way to tangibly prove you know what you're doing in the field. Even fucking aroind with an Arduino can impress the right people.
>>16779306It's not that most people don't care, it's that they can't tell the difference. But as long as you don't have the capacity to demonstrate your abilities to people despite their ignorance and congitive miserness, maybe you don't actually have those abilities and skills.
>>16779339>More expensive than a semester taking the course?the government pays for that
>>16779280Literally so what ?If you really "learned it" then you can just take the class and pass it on super easy mode, most of the time consuming "work" of most classes is the homework anyways, the class time is negligibleYou're going to hate sitting in a class being told things you already know for hours and listening to others who shouldn't even be in the class in the first place but overall you will get your "college backed credentials"WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? why are you complaining? Just use the extra time you have from already learning everything to learn NEW things or other subjects or just practice your current craft, AI can make endless practice problems if you run out of textbooks and workbooks ect (which you wont)Bait thread
>>16779352Fair enough.Back to the real point...Let's forget for a second all the shit you know.What can you actually do? What kind of place do you think should want to hire you on the basis of the things that you learned in your online travels?
