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The Future of Education | OverExpressed The most depressing class I ever took was freshman intro chemistry. Granted, it was advanced intro chemistry (oxymoronic, but that’s how the course identifications work at MIT; extra numbers = harder, extra letters = easier). So this was 5.112 (as opposed to the standard introductory 5.111). So why was it so depressing? I had learned the majority of this stuff already in my high school AP Chemistry course. I had actually done rather well in the chemistry class, finding most of the material to be quite manageable and I scored as well as you can on the AP exam. The sad part came when I realized I had forgotten a significant amount of the material I had mastered only a couple of years earlier. My high school instruction was better than the equivalent MIT instruction for this particular course.I can forget something pretty quickly, particularly if I’m not using it regularly. This really marked a turning point in my education. This obviously is not efficient. Education will be Personal