I could never afford it (wife, 4 kids, 2 cars, mortgage etc) but I'd love to be back learning again
School - wasted my time
6th form - same
pre-degree course - same
degree course - same
I am at a point now in my 50s that I would relish the thought of spending my time increasing knowledge, improving at stuff, learning things. I always thought I was a bit useless at that stuff, but it turns out that I was just a lazy couldn't-be-assed git. I've done a MENSA test in the past and they scored me at 141 so I must have something reasonable going on with the old grey cells.
If I win the lottery that's what I'm doing!
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If you started learning again you'd quickly remember why you didn't like it the first time around. I've done a few classes, formal and informal, and it doesn't take long before I start begrudging them.
I guess I think at the time, "Wouldn't it be amazing to be able to <speak Japanese/program in C/play guitar>" but when I learn to do it a little bit I realise that my life is pretty-much the same as it was before I could do those things. There is nothing amazing about it.
It was such a dull course....
Unless you've a real need or really really want to know something it's not going to happen.
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I'd always suggest study if you had a specific thing you want to do, rather than thinking 'I want to study something' and then try to find a subject.
I went and studied 'later in life' (if 41 counts as later in life) but I did it because I wanted to learn a specific thing- guitar building, rather than idealising being 'in education'.
I'm not saying it isn't worth doing- in a sense it was, but I could have had some private lessons in woodworking and spent £25k on tools and be in the same position.
A lot of the degree was stuff I already knew (being experienced in the subject area) or utterly unrelated to the topic (because it is cheaper for the university to lump various courses into the same class.)
I am considering doing an MBA at the moment- again for a specific purpose, rather than *just to do it*.
IMHO studying is actually roughly equal parts of interesting, boring, pointless and frustrating.
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As for the other stuff, I couldn't wait to leave school after my O Levels and find a job. I got work to fund a P/T degree in my thirties. Glad I did it, but worth finding out how much time out of the class needs to be put in. I had 15 different modules which all involved assignments or exams and my missus gave me the space to get on with it.
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His name was Ben.
Your dad didn't ride a motorbike with a sidecar, did he?
I dedicate time to learning every week