By the time you have a test, you should know it already.

You learn it by going over the material when it's first given to you.

Not immediately before a test.

If you do so, you won't hold onto it.

After a few weeks you'll have forgotten most of it and it won't serve you later in life.

You can get a degree and know remember very little about its subject.

People mock my method on this all the time. Yet it got me exceptionally high test scores.

And able to get these scores on command without needing to go over the material again immediately before.

Tell me.

Would you rather have a doctor who knows what to do when you're dying, or one that has to go look it up because they can't remember?

I could be a math teacher. :D
With these methods I could have much better students than other math teachers.

*omg can you tutor me*

I'm a strict teacher.

I won't give you the answer. And I'l try to get you to learn the process you need to figure it out.

Emma you're bae af Lolz

Hi I'm new here, I tend to agree with what you're saying, unfortunitly most people could care less about information aquisition and just want to pass in order to either get into a "well paying job" or to satisfy their parents. I think the best reason for education is a desire to improve one's self.

*Emma where have you been all my life :'(*

*cough more like a desire to die :^((*

You're not going to get a well paying job if you don't do this.

Just having the degree is not going to get you that job. Most people my age and younger these days have to get a minimum wage job that doesn't require a degree and are unable to use the degree they earned.

And if you do manage to get the job in your field, you'll start out at the bottom, where the pay is terrible.

And if you don't know the material, because you just crammed to get through tests, you're never going to be promoted out of that low position.

And it depends on what your degree is, once you're out of college you're most likely not going to get the job that you originally wanted to get in the first place.

Typically the only degrees that give you a good shot at being hired directly from the college are ones earned from colleges that are exceptionally difficult to get into with incredibly high tuition costs.

So you basically have to already be wealthy to have that guarentee.

While I believe the onus of learning is on the individual, to some extent the education system does reward people who cram information before a test or examination and simply regurgitate it on paper. Rather than promoting techniques to store that information into your long term memory.

Or a load of scholarship money from FAFSA.

That's very hard to get.

Scholarship rates are rising much, much slower than tutition rates.

Full ride scholarships are extremely rare and are akin to winning the lottery. You should neither expect nor count on it.

In almost every case, any scholarships you get will cover less than a third of your total cost.

Probably much less.

If you are fresh out of high school, your chances of getting any significant financial aid in scholarships and grants is essentially zero because having parents that still claim you as a dependent makes you inelligible regardless of how poor your parents are.

At best you can expect $2000 or so to cover a $10,000 cost for a year's tutition.

Depending on the college.

Some are more expensive.

Do you have to pay up front in your countires?

Yes.

So that means you have to take your loans out at the start of the term.

In the US, almost all colleges are for-profit businesses. They're always looking at ways to get more and more money out of students.

The way it works here is the our government will pay like 50 or 60 percent of the fees then you have to pay the rest but you can defer it and take a loan where you pay the governemtn back after you earn a certain amount.