[ExI] Greener Urban Environment

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Wed Jun 7 16:10:00 UTC 2017


On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 8:20 AM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
> With this plan, I don’t get laid.  But that wasn’t happening at college
> anyway: we were tech geeks, before Bill Gates made it cool.  It was pretty
> much all men on that end of campus.  The women didn’t like us.  We were too
> busy with studies, we spent too much time pecking away at those little
> plastic typewriters with the TV screens, we were just too weird.

> We are still missing one big ingredient before this paradigm completely
> dominates college level education: getting laid.  OK two big ingredients: a
> uniform objective system for credentials, a degree equivalent system
> perhaps, one that covers both those who go the traditional route of
> education and those who use the online resources, as well as those who do
> both the online education and get laid.  The person or company which
> successfully figures out how to do a useful and universal credential system
> will make a cubic buttload of money.  Oh it makes ya hurt just thinking
> about all the filthy lucre to be made here, ooooh a good hurt it is.
>
> Suggestions please?

If getting laid matters that much (as you and I experienced at
college, it doesn't: some things are so much better than sex),
sexbots.

As to the degree equivalent system, how about a degree from an
accredited school?  My mom's getting a PhD from University of Arizona,
and that seems to be widely recognized enough.  The accreditation
system has a self-interest in only allowing sufficiently good
education, and it's worked well enough so far.

That said, some people mistake the fact that it imposes measures, for
meaning that those measures must be disconnected from actual learning.
http://confidencetolearn.com/resources/14-accreditation gives a good
example of this disconnect:

"The student seeking an accredited education doesn't ask, "What will
it take to master this skill or subject?" and "What does mastery of
this skill or subject mean in my life and my community?" Instead, the
student asks, "What does it take to get an A?" (or B or C or whatever
the student thinks is required) and "What will an A from this
institution mean for my future employability?""

Accreditation means that getting an A for a course from that
institution means that the student has mastered the subject.  That is
one of the reasons why accreditation exists.




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