My Theory: We pay for education, we enroll in schools and universities not because we need teachers to teach us things and stack us with the right knowledge. Thing is, we never really needed them teachers. What we really needed is just someone, a curriculum, or a rule to guide us and keep us I focus with our studies. Because everyone is capable of learning things on their own, they really needed a curriculum to make us stay focused and prevent us from distractions so we could learn things in proper time and order.
Truth or not, it’s for each individual to decide. Opinions are by nature subjective.
A lot of my friends are asking how I learn web development from simple and static web pages to complex dynamic pages which are capable of user interactivity. Each time I got such questions, my response are all the same – I search the internet for some basic html lessons, looked at some interesting web sites and applied trial and error to create for myself a similar looking web page. Then I searched and applied and continued the processes and studied how to simplify complex and lengthy html codes by using dynamic scripts and other web development languages and techniques. The process has been quite long since I only started learning those things when I’m already working on a normal job so the study times were not as adequate as what I had when I was still a mediocre student.
Nowadays, in the age of modern technology, learning technical subjects (as web development) has never been so accessible. There already are hundreds of schools online which provides open learning where you could acquire technical studies without the hassle of going to schools everyday. They provide the curriculum, time frame for each course so you never need to worry about procrastination which is a huge pitfall when you’re self-studying subjects.
Kaplan Open Learning offers courses on Web Design and Business Degree Online among others.
