Why the higher education is so expensive (and ineffective in my opinion) ?

Can someone explain to me why we need people going to classrooms and sitting through out lectures, like they used to do it 100 years ago?

I mean I can understand when they do it in school, because kids need to be disciplined and supervised, they need teachers to make them stay still and listen.

But when talking about adults... why don't they just watch recorded lectures on youtube and that's it? What the point paying professors huge amount of money simply for giving lectures and repeating themselves over and over and over, and limit their audience to one classroom?

That's like the dumbest thing ever.

Now I do agree that you can't just study by watching recorded lectures, and you need some form of interaction and help and guidance... ok, that can be doable. You may have like a chatroom, with qualified specialists that can answer all your questions, in case you don't understand something.

I mean, I really don't understand the modern high education system. To pay all this money basically for being able to listen to live lectures that are being repeated over and over again... when they could simply record it once, and just let anyone watch it whenever they like... and that should reduce the cost dramatically.

I understand that you still have to get some attention from qualified teachers... they need to write the exams, and then go over it and check it, and give grades, and assist students with questions... ok. But the majority of their time (I assume) they waste on giving repetitive lectures... which is stupid and expensive (for students).

What do you think?

Submitted January 18, 2021 at 05:29PM by Welder-Tall https://ift.tt/38UyXAJ