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RE: Higher Education: is it relevant?
So, I basically get one important point from your discussion of the subject: networking is the only real reason to go to college. The rest is superfluous. This is one of the things that is so amazing about Steemit, a communication network system that promotes quality ideas generation and sharing. It more or less makes higher education redundant in as much as you can learn everything you need for most enterprises by self-study from free information resources now anyway.
In some point yes. But the main idea that we must develop skills of learning, and College helps to do it in some sense.
Learning just means paying attention and having the desire to retain it by immediate, and progressively diminishing application of knowledge. If you have ever heard of a french teacher of languages by the name of Pimsleur, you may have heard of his technique for rapidly acquiring long term memory. I have an instinct for it, every new thing that interests me gets applied, reiterated, evolved and cross-linked so it stays. I don't know if my memory is particularly exceptional, but for me it is just natural. The only issue I have is finding more concrete and usually expensive ways to apply new knowledge, so a lot of it just rattles around my head, keeping me awake at night and making me write compulsively :)
I think learning is also understanding and systematization of knowledge, that you get. Not enough just remember something. especially In tech science
Perhaps my memory capacity is way above normal then. I am one of those people who suddenly decides to dig into something, and then I push until I get brain-fry. Then after that subsides, I move around a lot. I am not a specialist. I have naturally specialised in areas that uprank this generalist ability, such as network technology and computers, where the capacity to network large complex disparate fields together is an advantage. I don't really have a method other than 'follow my bliss'.
But for people who have less exceptional learning ability, this systemisation is very important. In the end though, success is 9 parts talent and 1 part of effort. My efforts are very diverse, and I am sure that eventually it will qualify me for roles that nobody would have guessed existed. Having a broad, high level understanding that applies directly and can be used in various unexpected situations, makes you a leader. Not the political type, the visionary type.