some thoughts about uni?

What uni provide, can be divided into several parts?

1. knowledge, easy to understand, the knowledge itself, and the way of using different kind of knowledge.
2. socialization, something provided by uni but probably not that obivious, it is something like networking
3. a reference of the position in the people in similar ages, or, a proof of personal abilities, in general, people set up a aim for student to achieve, and if students achieve it, they are considered as capable, some common aims includes, good grades, good university, or, some goals that, is efficient to distinguish between different kinds of students. obiviously it is efficient, but I don’t think it is correct, because some special cases happen, since those goal are effect by lots of factor, for eg, the family income, learning environment and etc, that is, unrelated to abilities.
4. a pass for the job, using those reference, from 3rd point, filter out those student that, can’t achieve those goals, so it is much more efficient to pick up the right students.

But is the uni the only source of those values?

In terms of knowledge, I personally, feels like, those open source courses in MIT are much better than most of uni, in terms of both teaching and problem qualities.

in terms of socialization, it is easy to get replaced by learning groups online as well, and since it is online, it will probably be much easier to find someone to study together with?

in terms of, a reference of the position, or proof of personal abilities, shouldn’t it be more efficient to use something that is open to do it? For eg, codeforces / kaggle, obivious not the uni exam because no one know how hard it is, if the goal is to filter the people, why not make the rules public? In terms of feedback stuff, I think AI can actually play a good roles.

It won’t change in few years, but it is probably just a matter of time, like for now I can’t really find something that is special and important values from uni only, then why am i bothering, paying the huge amount of money for it…