Do we need tuition to further improve ourselves?

Question

Or is self-study sometimes better? Help me please. I don't know which one is better. Thank you.

Answer 1

You can self study all you want then go to the college of your choice, sign up, and test out of most of your classes.

I believe a lot of careers do require you to have a background in your field though. I don't want to visit a doctor that didn't go through medical school, you know. I'm perfectly content with a doctor that tested out of his basic classes though.

It just depends on what you want to do. College time really helps in the end.

Answer 2

well!....taking tutions is all up on ur state. if u r very well at a subject and feel ur self study would do denits ok to stay back bt if u lack a little u must take help to iprove upon urself!!

Answer 3

In my career I've found that the most important learning has come through my own initative, but this is not coming from an average student (I'm older).

Given the poor quality of instruction and lax admission standards of average schools, college will offer you very little IF (and this is a big if) you are disciplined. You have to be self-motivated (and have very little ego or at least an ego that is internally fed). You'll have no one to stamp an A on your work and no degree that says your *better* than others. You'll also have no one to push you and no threat of an F to keep you dilligent.

You'll have people tell you that you'll have no teachers or classmates to learn from without a formal college education, but the level of discourse at most schoosl is such that you aren't missing much (I promise you); you will do a million times better to find friends that are intelectually stimulating to you and then discuss things with them.

When it boils down to it, what you learn you'll learn from books and thinking and writing about the ideas you find in those books. You can do that yourself--but will you?

Now, having said that, there are non-acdemic things college can teach a teenager--important things. If you are a young person, it can be a wonderful experience provided you've been as sheltered as an average American kid. A different person will get much more out of traveling and volunteering (helping and meeting people in any way).

College is a good place for a young person to find themselves--find their passions and learn where they might make their mark (what they're good at). It's a place to make friends (which can happen in variety of places; for some, college isn't a good place to make friends). It's a place for one to their first indepenant experieces from learning how to do laundry to having their first serious relationships. It's a safe place to do all these things. There are other places to do them, perhaps do them better, but they require desire and ability and might not be quite as "safe."

Finally, you'll have people say you can have no success without a college education. Have them define success for you. You might not like what they think passes for success. For those that promise all the world for a college degree, they don't know what they're talking about. Outside of some scpecial school and/or degree in the natural sciences, a college degree opens a few meager doors--namely, getting you your first real job. If you have skill and ambition and the means to translate that to people that matter, you will end up at the same place financially with or without a college degree.

If you go to college, heed my advice and go with the right attitude or be prepared to be disappointed and in a lot of debt. Without debt, college would be a good thing for most people, I'd say. But given the cycle debt places America's youth into I'd say it makes sense for a lot less.