Simplify that for me....
I had a conversation with someone recently about education today and how learning institutions prepare people for a successful life in a chosen field. There are of course many aspects of education that could be discussed and the fact is that no matter how much you cover, there is a lot left to consider even after you think you've covered it all. A look in the Academics section of a university website will show you just how many things there are out there to study! The problem is, that as the knowledge base explodes more and more inferior people feel when faced with it. How can I know all of that?
When you take a college class today you are handed a $200 Textbook and 40 lectures on a subject from a professor who has been through all of that a hundred times before. It is a daunting task and so when faced with taking courses what is it a student is supposed to do?
This guy was saying that education needs to be crystalized down to bullet points of knowledge and to do away with the fluff that gets mixed in with the texts. While I shared this point of view for many years I have long since discovered that the work of being a student is to learn how to break down information in order to understand it.
Information is nothing more than vomit if you don't organize it. So, the work of a student is to organize the information so they can understand it their way.
What is studying after all?
Studying is figuring out what something means in your own words and ways. If the teachers did that for you all of the time then you wouldn't get an education, which is learning how to learn.