Hi Billy, Sent from my iPhone
> What would it take to pull off an actual educational reformation? It has to be more than just education. The reason education is valuable is that it serves as an entry ticket into jobs, social circles, etc. Perversely, that allows professors to not actually do a great job at preparing students for work or life, leading to the Leftist profusion you describe. Microdegrees are a good idea, but may be too easy to integrate into the existing job model, so it won't really threaten universities. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdegree The only technical options I see for true disruption are: A) fantastic profiling of prospective employees, such that employers no longer have to rely on degrees B) true and strict value-added metrics for schools that allow us to measure what's being provided. C) large-scale micro-entrepreneurship, so creating a job is easier than finding a job None of them are easy, but it seems likely at least one will happen in the next decade. E -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
