Informal education survey

I'd like to a sort of survey on the education history of Veeky Forums posters and lurkers. Give me your input and discuss other's answers.

>your country of origin / the country you were educated in
>type of schooling you went through and your opinion of it. what was helpful for you? what could have been done better?
>have you done / are you in continuing education? if so, what are you getting from it?
>overall what should be preserved or what should be changed?

>USA
>expelled from highschool
>autodidact
>if i could go back i would have waited until after graduation to become a heroin addict

>Antarctica / England
>Hogwarts. not bad, but they could do with some better fish at meals
>still at Hogwarts. each year brings a new world-threatening adventure
>more safe spaces for penguins

Ukraine
Highschool diploma + college (which is the lowest tier of higher education here). The latter helped me with some practical skills due to my major, electrical engineering, and helped me learn how to deal with people and tackle bigger problems than I've encountered before that.
No, I dropped out of uni; wanted to go for another degree in another city but I changed my mind, and I'm glad I did.
I'm not smart or competent enough to propose any changes to something as big as the education system.

>>your country of origin / the country you were educated in
Ireland

>>type of schooling you went through and your opinion of it. what was helpful for you? what could have been done better?
I have a Bachelors degree in Philosophy and English.
Philosophy I was very happy with, nearly every module I engaged in was interesting and challenging and I felt I received a good grounding in every school from the Greeks to Phenomenology to 20th Century Analytics.
English was a total shit show, there were maybe two or three modules in my entire degree that were worth bothering to show up for. The lecturers were either total fucking morons or the most hack theory readers performing on autopilot. The best I can say is that the rare good lecturers were pure gold and the rest was easy as shit.

>>have you done / are you in continuing education? if so, what are you getting from it?
Im currently in Grad School for Computer Science which I'm in for just to get healthy income. I intend on going into Grad studies in philosophy when I've accumulated a stable lot in life.

>>overall what should be preserved or what should be changed?
English as a degree simply can not withstand the relatavist shitshow of Liberal society. I think there needs to be courses specifically tailored to only teach Classically Canonical works as its the only way I see any reliable worthwhile rigor being recovered from the discipline.
As is the slew of moronic women currently taking over departments have no idea how to read and its just a disgrace what they get away with.
Philosophy I'm quite content with, I probably had some minor gripes here and there but nothing compared with English

>your country of origin / the country you were educated in
USA. Texas, to be specific.

>type of schooling you went through and your opinion of it. what was helpful for you? what could have been done better?
Public school until 10th grade. Always felt like the teachers were just babysitting us and giving us stupid information that was irrelevant to anything we cared about. It was more like a prison that we were herded through for 8 hours daily. If there were 40 teachers maybe 6 or 7 of them actually cared. The only kids who applied themselves were spergs and over-achievers that would lose their parents' love if they performed like the rest of us.

My high school was so crowded that it gave me terrible anxiety and I was one of *those* kids who would have mental breakdowns in class. Yeah I was a faggot. So I asked my parents to find an alternative and we found a private school hosted in a church nearby. It was a "homeschool co-op" where you go for 6 hours of schooling Tues-Thurs and do homework during the other days. It was maximum comfy and I felt so glad only having 8 kids total in my classes. I learned more there than I did in several years of public school and I actually cared about my grades and performance. Also we read The Scarlet Letter and had actual discussion. The English teacher was old and wise and taught me to look at life analytically. And it was there that I met a fellow "chantard" and we were two autistic 16 year olds that got along perfectly.

Unfortunately my parents couldn't afford to send me there for 11th grade so I went to a free charter school that was like an outlet for bad kids or kids that wanted to graduate early. You went 5 days a week for 4 hours and you did all the work from packets or computer lessons. I did several semesters worth of courses in a few weeks and it felt amazing to be in charge of my own progress and not have to be drug through a subject at the pace of the stupid kids. Graduated a full year earlier than others that were still in the public high school.

>have you done / are you in continuing education? if so, what are you getting from it?
Since I graduated high school early I didn't want to go to college immediately so I screwed around doing nothing for a few years. But I did go to the community college eventually. Dropped out though lol. Damn math class demanding 10 hours of work a week when the other classes required maybe 2. I found that each class was like a balancing game of figuring out the most efficient way to do the coursework and pleasing the professor. I need to get back though because being a wagecuck labor slave is terrible and I'm too smart to waste my life making $10 an hour.

>overall what should be preserved or what should be changed?
Make students care about subjects. If they don't care, at least let them have some control over how they can approach subjects. I know nothing will change because public school is all about funding now so I guess I'll have to homeschool my own children.

bump for interest

>Canada
>High school, University (Bachelor), University (Law School)
In North America, you have to finish an undergrad degree before you can go to law school.

My high school was pretty great, actually. It was a public school, and it specialised in performing arts. You had to audition to get in and you had to maintain a C average to stay (not that this was particularly difficult, but you do cut out a lot of people that way). Of course, schools can always be improved. I would have liked to see smaller class sizes and a tougher curriculum (across the province).

What really helped in my high school was that students were in charge of most of the activities. Students ran the announcements through a media room (complete with microphones and sound mixing equipment, etc.), students ran the dances, students ran the leadership camps (with supervision), and students ran assemblies. Assemblies were different for us than for most people. Rather than having the principal or teachers give us lectures on civic virtue or whatever it is that others do, students could audition and perform musical numbers, dances, poetry readings, etc. Overall, the atmosphere was pretty supportive, and students were allowed to do pretty much whatever, and we all had the teachers backing us up.

My undergrad was in economics and political science. Economics was pretty math heavy and poli sci was a pretty good mix of different things. There were some major political philosophy components, so I feel like I got an extra education in philosophy (although of course nowhere near what actual philosophy majors get).

My university class sizes were far too big (except for seminars), and I think that's detrimental to learning. First year econ had like 200-300 students in it. The prof didn't have time to make sure everyone got everything; he just administered a multiple choice exam. I also think that there weren't nearly enough papers being assigned. You'd be surprised at how bad people are at writing, even having gone through four years of university education.

I'm in law school right now and I'm enjoying it, although it is still surprising how bad some people are at writing.

>What should be preserved and what should be changed?
At every level, I think we need more teachers/professors per student, and I think that there should be tougher material to learn.

Just as important, I think that we should stop treating students as consumers of education. This is especially bad at university. Instead, we should view students as stakeholders/owners of education, and allow them more control over school activities.

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