Forget the textbooks
April 16th, 2007
Stephen Leacock wrote:
If I were founding a university … I would found first a smoking room; then when I had a little more money in hand I would found a dormitory; then after that, or [perhaps] with it, a decent reading room and a library. After that, if I still had money over that I couldn’t use, I would hire a professor and get some text books.
Little of my classroom education can be directly applied to my present job. What, then, was valuable?
- Learning how to learn
- Collaborating
- Socializing
The institution was more important than the classroom.
(This post is part of the 100/100/100 challenge)
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