[ExI] Greener Urban Environment

[Dave Sill]

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 4:55 PM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yeah, yeah, "beware of student loans beyond what you can repay".


There's a lot more to it than that. Traditional education, where students
sit in classrooms and teachers/professors lecture, does not make good use
of technology, the student's time, the professor's time, the resources
used, etc. Degrees don't provide employers with a good indicator of a
person's ability to a particular job. The costs are too high and are rising
too fast--and they aren't resulting in better-educated students.

A college degree should be more than a white-collar trade school but who
can afford a $100k degree that doesn't provide the skills necessary to get
a good job?

Spike's experience with the Khan Academy provides a taste of what is
possible with today's technology: substantially better education at a
fraction of the cost.

-Dave
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