Why I Paused My University Education: A Critique of Institutional Learning
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Published on April 15, 2025
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A personal reflection explaining why the author paused their university education. The author argues that institutional education fails to be fun, inclusive, accessible, immersive, or stimulating of curiosity and critical thinking. They criticize the high cost ($996.75 for one course) that overpromises and underdelivers, framing continued enrollment as an irrational choice.
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· 3 pulledA university or college education should be, but isn't: fun, inclusive, accessible, immersive, multifaceted, accommodating, open to criticism, stimulating curiosity, invigorating discovery, nonexclusive to students, encouraging critical thinking.
Paying $996.75 to teach yourself one course that over promises and doesn't deliver is something an idiot would do.
"Whenever I'm about to do something, I think, 'Would an idiot do that?' And if they would, I do not do that thing." — Dwight Schr
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