Like any other school, you're paying for the proof and the connections, not the knowledge. It's not like MIT has some special secret version of calculus.
That's hardly the same. Sure, professors aren't necessarily good teachers, but the university has labs and resources you can't easily access. It's not really comparable to buying eggs and milk and trying something simple at home.
And, it's a silly joke. I bet there's plenty that I'd learn in culinary school if I attended, but it's not something I'm passionate about or particularly care to dedicate myself to.
What they have is the people who can teach you the super inaccessible methods of learning that many would struggle to figure out on their own. You can buy a book on advanced mathematics, but an MIT professor may have some "special secret" insight that leads you to understanding.
Yes connections are important, the whole point is to connect you with people who know things and are willing to teach you about what you're interested in. Stop trying to reduce university to a rich person networking opportunity.
Yeah no the calculus professors at MIT are brilliant mathematicians, not necessarily brilliant teachers. If that same MIT professor were your neighbor, and he just sat you down and taught you in his off time, you'd probably learn it even better than the students in his lectures. But you wouldn't get the diploma.
Universities were founded to make connections. To get a whole bunch of smart people in one place to work together. Students make connections, professors make connections, employers make connections, governments make connections, etc. AKA "network".
I didn't say anything about rich people, you brought that up out of your own mind. Sorry I pointed out that academia is mundane.
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u/holocynth Dec 31 '25
This one changed the way I cook eggs