College is dead; you just don’t know it yet

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  • 02/12/2016

    Roger Schank at OEB16. But this is just the hook. What is going on is that school isn’t working, and people end up having to go to college, with a resulting increase in expense for both students and the state. It is wasteful — except for those selling degrees, and a proportion of students.

    Reminds me of the Alan Kay quote, to the effect that the US has the best high school education in the world — it is just a shame you have to go to College to get it. Of course if you go to graduate school….