Poll: Academia vs Insight.

[Daystar Clarion]

I learn 100 times better from conversations then speechs and textbooks.

Me too, unless I actually like a subject in a text book before hand I find it a lot easier to learn by listening. I'd rather watch a documentary than read a history book.

 

[Omikron009]

Both. I love discussing things and learning interactively but I have an intense dislike for creative projects and little tolerance for ambiguity.

 

[Commissar Sae]

I'm a history student, so really a bit of both. I learn a great deal by reading from the dusty old books, but active discussion with people who were alive during the events is also fantastically interesting. (Like my one prof who was a teenager in china at the outbreak of the civil war.)

 

[the_tralfalmadorian]

I'm not sure I understand the distinction between academia and insight here. I take academia to mean the formalized pursuit of knowledge. At least at my (largely research driven) school, insight--here meaning "penetrating mental vision or discernment; faculty of seeing into inner character or underlying truth." (thanks dictionary.com) plays a major part in academia.

At least for me, my formal education has led me to some truly wonderful insights into the world around me. My education has actually made me a monster to debate. Everyone in the world should know to operationally define their terms, which is the number one thing we psych students have beat into us.

 

[Asturiel]

Im a more maths and science man myself. Just what suits me I dont like "verbal diariha" as it has been described by me in the past but I still like insight more.

Sure you need acadmia but is knowing that 8.314 kPa.L/mol.K is an important number more important than what it actually means? Just one breeds imbiciles I say, either they are "entitled" to their own stupid opinion or they have the knowledge but dont know what the fuck they are taking about.

 

[JohnSmith]

If your doing law and don't think that there is room for insight you are doing the wrong course. Academia is not the anti-thesis of insight it is, or at least can be synonymous with it.