I have education, but I'm not educated...

Courses taught in school these days are a bit lacking.

For example, a lot of courses are taught in full Java, including Operating Systems. Refer to Joel on Software if you are inclined to thinking that Java is useful for teaching, edifying, and promoting students to think on their own.

In any event, this post is to ponder the actual education learned while in school. I was referred to a student that he was "in school, but not being educated" and "what is the point of school if you don't learn"...

Therein, lies a great paradox that probably won't be answered by the end of this writing, but I will definitely try a poke at it. So, students know that teachers don't really care about the students, and that there is a lot of material to learn, and the teachers usually give a half-ass lecture on the subject and then provide a way for you to fail the course by giving explicit material that was NOT covered in lecture. They seem to like to fail students with a smile on their face, and wonder why students don't really like them?! But the point is that teachers aren't really teaching their students anything anymore. I can go into specific detail, but I doubt it's really needed. This post is not for the professors as much as it is for the students. Students from all over can testify that this is the case. Though it probably isn't 100% true, it is true for the general public.

Therefore, how do students actually learn? Well, it's the environment, some would say. I don't necessarily disagree with this idea. If you are in a good and learning environment, then it's easy to be educated by other students. The environment is good and manageable to learn something. However, what happens when you have a poor learning environment, and the teachers, well... suck. I guess you're virtually screwed, and without a good job, to boot. With that said you have education, but aren't educated. Therefore, what we need is to have the best of both world, good environment and good teachers. But that's a perfect world, and well, teachers and the environment is somewhat NOT perfect. Anyways, just thoughts to ponder...