/edu/ - Education

>>23258
it depends on the subject. universities often publish the reading materials for their courses. university professors also usually write "course books" that they use for their classes and are basically transcriptions from past lectures + a compilation or curated subset of the broader reading list + practical exercises

there are many open recordings of lectures from the time of the pandemic if you want additional guidance, but not necessarily on youtube. you have to skim university sites for information on the courses you are interested in. once you find that you can use the internet archive to see if at some point they had links to recorded lectures

out of curiosity, what are you interested in?

>>23259
>>23259
>out of curiosity, what are you interested in?
applicable mathematics
drawing
evolution psychology
medicine
psychology

>applicable mathematics
>drawing
>medicine
these are too broad to be actionable. with math at least the usual college route is: algebra, geometry, logic and set theory -> calculus and analysis -> probability and statistics (and then discrete math if you want to branch into computer science). but even in college most of these you only see at an "introductory" level. after that you branch into more domain-specific applied math

>psychology
this one is not only too broad but also too contested. different places focus on different currents, but even then, you still have to read and learn about contradictory models and mutually exclusive approaches. self-proclaimed autodidacts often overlook this and focus on whatever authors they decided were correct before even beginning

>evolution psychology
this is one is astrology for men and I don't think it is even really studied outside of american universities. usually when you see academic mentions of evolution psychology in the rest of the world it means individual development, as in, infant pedagogy, education, and culture and acquired behavior in general, because evolution is a synonym for development in many languages. that's the case at my university for example, where the term is exclusively used in papers about things like triadic interactions, formative effects of the environment, and strategies for professional training and inclusion

Why are people willing to dedicate their free time to learning philosophy and impractical mathematics but not towards learning technical skills?

>>23258
You don't need to go to college to learn anything, it's for the certificate and research grant for higher academia.

Read textbooks.

>>23266
fun

>>23260
If you want to learn drawing, John K.'s blog is a pretty good resource. Fair warning, he's a reactionary (of the "the West peaked in the early-60s and the hippies ruined everything" variety), but if you can get past that, he has very good resources on art fundamentals.

>>23258
At a lot of community colleges you're allowed to audit courses. You can just show up and take the class for free without receiving credit. Tuition is essentially a racket. You're not paying for the service of being taught. You're paying for the reception of credentials upon course completion. You can complete a course without getting credit for free. Some enterprising individuals will audit courses to see whether they can pass them easily before taking them for real. This way they get a "taste" of the difficulty of the material and see whether they're missing any gaps in their knowledge before finally paying for the real deal. This is to avoid paying tuition twice if you fail a course the first time.

>>23266
Seems to me that the limiting factor would be access to equipment.