/sci/ - Science & Math

Does anyone else feel like school is actually holding them back from learning?

I mean I KNOW everything before high school more or less holds us back (at least in america) but I'm talking about college.

I'm a physics major, and I truly believe that I would know a LOT more physics by now if it were not for school. Even the physics courses.
I am 100% certian that I learn far more during the summer with no school than I ever have learned from being in school.

Instead of refining my knowledge of the fundamentals of some topic or learning a new topic, I have to memorize equations so that I can do them FASTER, so that I can do decently on the GRE.
If I use my current knowledge of physics I will be deriving equations on the test (which is how physics SHOULD be done IMO!!!) But, no, if I do it that way on the GRE there isn't enough time and I will fail miserably, which is total BS.. that's not physics!!!

But this is exactly the kind of thing that school and tests promote.

No wonder nothing really groundbreaking has happened in physics in the last 50 years.

Why can't we just go to classes (that we are paying for btw) with books and open minds and listen to great lectures by very intelligent professors and then go home and that's it. Why am I paying schools to judge me with grades, I should just be paying for an education and nothing more. and if universites worked that way, what would be left to teach? They wouldn't be "preparing you for the test" would they?

NO, you would FINALLY start getting a quality education, because the only purpose left would be to simply give you knowledge!! which is what universities should be about

>>3273536

So by completely ignoring contextual semantics you somehow think you are right...

brb killing myself

"creationi-tism"

"knowledged about it"

This is why intelligent people can never really be incredibly sociable.

Because your intelligence causes you to discover the truth but society only concerns itself with what is comfortable. The facts are obvious, but their implications can be disconcerting and so instead of dealing with them like rational adults we just dance around the subject like retarded monkeys.

I'm not even really that mad, just disappoint.

>Physics major
>Take time off my own homework to help roommates and friends in low-level physics/math classes
>Try to make lessons fun, encourage them to enjoy math and science
>Only pitch a fit if they expect me to just hand them the answers
>Done with work, go on /sci/
>Thread full of fucktards getting angry at people for not learning quickly
>mfw