![[OC] Academic textbooks being discarded from abandoned university buildings. More photos in post.](https://media.piefed.social/posts/3P/lr/3PlrLZZPYodyspS.jpg){kind=link}
Aberystwyth University closed one of its campuses a few years ago. The place has been left to rot, but recently they’ve started clearing the place out, and removing all the old scientific textbooks. Most of them look untouched. Wonder how much this lot would have set students back if buying new.
You might not be. But you’re also failing to see how such knowledge would work in real life applications, and how the process of learning an advanced topic can generally make you more intelligent.
And beyond that, you might not get a job that absolutely requires a diploma, but it wouldn’t stop you from showing competence in jobs that somewhat align with what you’ve learned.
Are you seriously trying to argue that an employer is going to like promote you because you’re reading a physics textbook in your spare time?
I’d like to be on whatever drug you’re taking that you think this that’s how the world works. This is what is called ‘delusional optimism’.
I studied advanced mathematics for fun, it in no way improve my job prospects, performance, or make me ‘more intelligent’. It was just a personal fulfillment thing.
It’s fine if you want to learn advanced topics in your spare time, I love that myself. But I’m no under no delusion it improves anything about my life. It’s just a preference of how you like to spend your time.
anyway, by all means, please go buy 100 old text books and go to a homeless camp and try to educate folks about physics. see how that goes.
That entirely depends on the job, now, doesn’t it?
what job offers promotion for reading physics textbooks, praytell?
most employers offer you credit for advanced degrees or professional certifications, bother of which you aren’t getting from a book you found in a dumpster. you get those buy paying money and passing tests.