{"id":31,"date":"2007-05-15T15:54:12","date_gmt":"2007-05-15T22:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/briantroy.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/15\/did-you-learn-more-in-school-or-out\/"},"modified":"2007-05-15T15:54:12","modified_gmt":"2007-05-15T22:54:12","slug":"did-you-learn-more-in-school-or-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/15\/did-you-learn-more-in-school-or-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you learn more in school or out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pulverblog.pulver.com\/\" title=\"Pulver Blog\">Jeff Pulver at the Jeff Pulver Blog<\/a> asked a <a href=\"http:\/\/pulverblog.pulver.com\/archives\/006965.html\" title=\"Pulver Blog Entry\">great question today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Which leads me to today\u2019s question of the day: Looking at what you are involved with these days on a day-to-day basis, did you learn more of what you need to know to do this from something you learned in school, or from something you taught yourself?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I firmly believe that &#8220;school&#8221; &#8211; structured education &#8211; can serve only one real purpose. It should teach us how to learn.<\/p>\n<p>My reality is that I learned far more outside of structured education than in. Having said that I do credit structured education for helping me learn <em>how to learn.<\/em> I also credit structured education with exposing me to a broad variety of concepts and igniting passion for those things that would shape my career.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/briantroy.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/15\/congress-finally-decides-to-do-something-to-aid-innovation\/\" title=\"Losing a generation of engineers...\">stated in this post<\/a> I have great concern that we are losing a generation of engineers becase we are failing to ignite middle and high schools students passion for engineering, science and math. Please get involoved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Pulver at the Jeff Pulver Blog asked a great question today: Which leads me to today\u2019s question of the day: Looking at what you are involved with these days on a day-to-day basis, did you learn more of what you need to know to do this from something you learned in school, or from&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/15\/did-you-learn-more-in-school-or-out\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Did you learn more in school or out?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogarchive.briantroy.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}