If education was free, what would you study?

Turkey · June 25, 2015, 06:50:55 PM

Assume we're in some sort of proto-utopia where the need to work is mostly eliminated, and people pursue careers for passion rather than to live, and education is free (it is also less stressful and grade-oriented). What kind of things would you study? Liberal arts? Philosophy? Sciences?

I think I'd start with film study, and learn ancient Hebrew. Throw some theoretical physics in there.

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Okay, now that you've thought about that, do you think it's wrong that we choose not to pursue these things because we're so caught up in work?

More Than Mortal · June 25, 2015, 06:56:54 PM

Exactly what I'm going to: economics.

EDIT: Y'know, that actually kind of makes me happy. Even when you make the opportunity cost of pursuing something educational entirely emotional, I'd still be doing what I want to do now.

Mr. Psychologist · June 25, 2015, 07:34:41 PM

I'd still be doing Clinical Psychology, pretty much the only thing that would dissuade me from that is if by some retarded stroke of luck I get into post-graduate medschool as I was originally planning to do (Albeit not post-grad) in which case I'd go for Psychiatry but eh, I'm happy with my current goal as it is.

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More Than Mortal · June 25, 2015, 07:56:25 PM

Quote from: HEAT SEEKING GHOST OF SEX on June 25, 2015, 07:55:29 PM

Acting, like I will be this fall.

Have fun teaching primary.

TB · June 25, 2015, 07:57:11 PM

Still Psychology.

More Than Mortal · June 25, 2015, 08:03:35 PM

Look at all these scrubs choosing an inferior social science to study.

Hell, I might focus on behavioural economics and subsume you.

Mad Max · June 25, 2015, 08:13:24 PM

Political Science/International Relations

eggsalad · June 25, 2015, 08:54:31 PM

Psychology most likely.

DAS B00T x2 · June 25, 2015, 09:20:03 PM

Part of me wants to say audio engineering and music production, but another part of me wants to say aerobatics.
I could totes like, just live the rest of my life doing loops and shit in a reconstructed Bücker or Skybolt or some old warbird.

Sandtrap · June 25, 2015, 09:22:36 PM

Mechanics might be something I'd be interested in.

Toss in electrical engineering.

Hell, toss in a lot, actually. If education was free I'd try to learn as much as whatever captivated my interests and ideas.

Verbatim · June 25, 2015, 09:23:28 PM

English writing, of course. If I didn't hate kids so much, I would pursue a career as an English professor.

Lord Starch · June 25, 2015, 09:28:41 PM

Hmm... either architecture, applied math, or computer science.

Verbatim · June 25, 2015, 09:31:37 PM

Quote from: Meta Cognition on June 25, 2015, 06:56:54 PM

Y'know, that actually kind of makes me happy. Even when you make the opportunity cost of pursuing something educational entirely emotional, I'd still be doing what I want to do now.

fuck yourself

More Than Mortal · June 25, 2015, 09:38:03 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on June 25, 2015, 09:31:37 PM

Quote from: Meta Cognition on June 25, 2015, 06:56:54 PM
Y'know, that actually kind of makes me happy. Even when you make the opportunity cost of pursuing something educational entirely emotional, I'd still be doing what I want to do now.
fuck yourself

Why's that then?

Verbatim · June 25, 2015, 09:38:41 PM

don't mind me, i'm just jelly

tfw your passion isn't in demand
and never will be

Korra · June 25, 2015, 09:46:04 PM

Still accounting.

More Than Mortal · June 25, 2015, 09:51:14 PM

Quote from: Verbatim on June 25, 2015, 09:38:41 PM

tfw your passion isn't in demand

tfw your passion allows you to tank an economy

or maybe causing depressions is my passion, and economics is just a means to an end

Word Wizard · June 25, 2015, 09:58:04 PM

What I'm doing now, software development.

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DAS B00T x2 · June 25, 2015, 11:02:23 PM

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Quote from: Meta Cognition on June 25, 2015, 07:56:25 PM
Quote from: HEAT SEEKING GHOST OF SEX on June 25, 2015, 07:55:29 PM
Acting, like I will be this fall.
Have fun teaching primary.
I'll kill myself before that happens

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Naru · June 26, 2015, 12:34:51 AM

Astrophysics
Quantum Theory
Atomic Theory (basically working at a power plant or at CERN)
Aerospace Technology

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big dog · June 26, 2015, 01:56:25 AM

Still Computrr Science or Mathematics.

Jester · June 26, 2015, 02:10:21 AM

I always wanted to study law

Mordo · June 26, 2015, 05:07:22 AM

Film or theater study.

Genghis Khan · June 26, 2015, 05:09:04 AM

I don't like studying.

gats · June 26, 2015, 05:54:20 AM

Computer graphics

Mattie G Indahouse · June 26, 2015, 05:59:50 AM

Quote from: Meta Cognition on June 25, 2015, 06:56:54 PM

Exactly what I'm going to: economics.

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