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The bit which caught my attention
Jan. 24th, 2012 02:15 pmThis is an interesting summary and commentary on the current state of higher education:
http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2012/01/making-universities-obsolete.html
Failure #2 is the interesting bit to me, right now. "It's not as if you get a D learning to ride a bike, then you stop and move onto learning the unicycle." The educational system looks for ways to measure outcomes, but the testing system is all screwed up, largely because it's easier to mass-produce things when they are all the same. People are not all the same, and we waste their potential when we try to fit them into average-sized boxes.
http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2012/01/making-universities-obsolete.html
Failure #2 is the interesting bit to me, right now. "It's not as if you get a D learning to ride a bike, then you stop and move onto learning the unicycle." The educational system looks for ways to measure outcomes, but the testing system is all screwed up, largely because it's easier to mass-produce things when they are all the same. People are not all the same, and we waste their potential when we try to fit them into average-sized boxes.
