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Add to FavoritesMy answer is "Yes, of course and absolutely more" without any doubt. You may have a question whether the knowledge someone learns from the Internet can be recognized or whether the knowledge from the Internet is absolutely right?
Before I start my discourse on my views, I'd like to show you a number. There are more than ONE BILLION people browsing the Internet. What does it mean? It means one of six people will surf the net. Furthermore, Internet is a big platform, you can offer what you know in the same time you can also absorb what you want to know from others; it's a process for exchange. So more people surf the net, more knowledge will be shown on this great platform.
Now let me answer your query.
First, let's pay attention to the topic we are now discussing. There is an important word "much" in it. There is no doubt that much more knowledge can be acquired from the Internet, including what you can learn from a school; what you can learn from the real society; even some information that only can be known from some experts. All of these things can be put into your brain without going to the college, if only you browser in the net; click your mouse when finding whatever interests you or anything you wonder.
The quality of knowledge is more important than the quantity. So second, when you challenge whether what you obtain on the net is right or not, why not use our brain to analyze the question or search something more to testify it? Only through this way, can you learn something not for contemporary but for a life time. So I want to say, what matters is not what you want to learn but how you learn it. Do you want every question resolved of itself without any endeavor? We are always making progress in our mistakes.
Third, our parents may tell us that going to college for education is a shortcut and maybe it is the most efficient way for us. That's not wrong. It's a high efficient way but not a best way. From my point of view the best way to study is learn by you not just a book or teachers. Thus learn from the Internet gets the point; it not only offers you what you want to learn but also offers you a way for studying by yourself. Although college also has this function, it pays more attention to choosing what students should learn and arranging proper classes for you. Imagine such circumstances. You are a student whose major is engineering, but your interest is business. Then how can you get more knowledge about the business? At that time, Internet is a ideal choice.
Last but not least, as a Chinese proverb goes, travelling far knows much, if we want to learn more we must have more communication with peers and friends. And in this way, learn from the Internet has an overwhelming advantage. On the net, you will find many people who have the same opinions or purposes. By this way you can learn much and maybe it will motivate your interest and open your mind. While in college, most of us go from classroom to dormitory, and then go from dormitory from classroom. We often chat with our roommates in most cases. Without net, our communication become less and less.
Learn from a college is necessary, but the knowledge from the Internet is infinite and you can rise your study ability at the same time. There is a notion in my mind "To teach fishing is better than to give a fish."
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The internet has come a long way, there is certainly no doubt about it. Yet, with the wealth of information that it possesses, there is no way that you can learn more from it then you can from a real college education. With the Internet, it is true that you can get some of the same information, some real time video and search websites that can answer some of the same questions that could be posed in a college classroom, but the real life experience of college outweighs the amount of time sitting in front of a computer it would take to get a degree.
The best way to prove that a college education is better is to take kind of role play. First of all, imagine yourself sitting in front of a computer. If the computer is situated in the house, you will have extreme distractions. This is of course, you are distracted from the television, family members screaming all day long and at the same time there being no real interaction from other college classmates and a real life professor. Then imagine yourself looking at the computer screen for hours at a time. This is almost impossible without falling asleep, getting neck and back pain. The other possibility to imagine yourself in is this: what will it take for you to get up from the computer and going for a drive somewhere, maybe to the local eatery and staying for awhile. This surely does not sound like a fun time. Maybe it is, if you are an Internet junkie, but at the same time, you will not have the fun of being in a real time classroom really getting the "jist" of the subject from a professor who was probably a part of what is being taught.
How about the societal aspects of a college education. Can you join a fraternity via the Internet? What would it be called? Phi Beta Intern eta? Would you be able to take your computer to the first fraternity dance? That would look awfully strange, would it not? Getting back to the seriousness of the question at hand, again, as mentioned before, what is interesting here is that today, many students in college probably do get the information for their term papers and their homework from the Internet. So, maybe the best way to ask this question is how does the Internet assist in getting a great college education?
Going to college offers more than just a classroom and a professor. It offers the ability to attend seminars, hearings, visiting museums, going to shows, interacting with students during study sessions and much more. Using the Internet to get a college education may not be so bad, yet, very rarely will you get the chance to do the things mentioned earlier. Some people due to time constraints and the inability to pay for college or those who do not interact well with people, yet, want a college education may want the option to use the Internet to get their college degree.
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