One of the things that has struck me lately is just how much I use what I learned at school every day, just about. My degree just didn't "teach me how to learn" crap that you tell the arts students, but so much more. I find that I am able to use material from 1st year all the way to 4th. It's awesome. Some people are like "wow, that's a great idea! I won't have thought of that." to which I usually reply something like "Ya, I wish I had been the guy to think of it too... that's what they taught us in school".
I'm not trying to promote UofO or anything. I'm just so happy that whoever worked on planning the courses we took (which I grumbled about at the time with the best of them) did a good job. Yes, there were gaps which I believe they have been working on to fix since we left, but I'm still happy with the result.
What percentage of people actually apply and use what they were taught in school? Probably pretty low for most programs. We're the lucky ones.
It kind of makes me think of the commercials for places like CDI college where you "only take the courses you need". A lot of the time when we were taking the courses, we didn't really see their usefullness, but in the end, we are better off knowing the stuff than not knowing the stuff.
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