What do you learn at school? What can you get from attending lectures?
I have been wondering about this question while doing the same thing over and over again, trying to get a higher grade and the recognition from my teacher. But I was wrong. I didn't get the whole picture. Going through my education at Michigan State University studying landscape architecture, my experience was traditional in the beginning. But it changed as I progress from a freshman to where I am now, a super senior. Our education is to focus on collaboration and learning from each other. We learn by doing projects either by ourselves or in groups. Our teachers are there to guide us instead of feeding information into our brain. At least for college students that's not the point of the education. I did this graphic while I was taking a design theory class in the summer. What we need to do is to define problems before solving it. I think this applies to real-world problems too. In a world as complicated as ours, there is no instruction or solution to any "problems." We learn to solve problems, but ultimately we need to find the problems. And that's the hardest and most time consuming part of our project. I still remember how hard it was to do projects in the beginning. We had no clue and everyone was saying it was not hard if you figure it out quickly. We always make wrong estimates about the time we need to finish a project. Now we know that the process before solving the problem is what we learn here, isn't it? Or it's a process of problem-solving?
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