Am I crazy to think that degrees can be earned by a student studying a specialty under a expert in that field using a curriculum that is constantly updated by the technical experts in that field. Say a person who wishes to be a doctor would get a job in a hospital or as a paramedic and study medicine from the ground level up. There would be a list of tests that that person must take to show that they learned the skill. Can we do it the way that they used to do it before their where universities. The way we learn now is outdated.
I am a military accountant and I know that most of what I learned has been from asking questions to the technical experts.
Most high school students know how to write in html. They learned this without cracking one college text book.
All science books have the wrong info in regards to the solar system.
2006-10-01 09:59:32 · 1 answers · asked by elephantman12004 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Higher Education (University +)
That's not a bad idea, for most occupations,but there is far too much to know in medicine for it to work.
And paramedics are not the ground level of medicine! They are the highest level of prehospital emergency medicine available in the country! Paramedics are highly specialized (often more than the average M.D) at prehospital emergency medicine, but they don't know nearly enough to perform at that level in other areas of medicine. There is too much in the field of medicine to study it in the fashion that you mentioned.. That's why doctors go to school for 8-10 years!
That's just my opinion, anyways!
2006-10-02 06:33:30 · answer #1 · answered by rita_alabama 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋