YouTube class in college?
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-11-09 21:51:45
I don’t know about the reputation of Pitzer College. I don’t experience the track record of students that graduated there - but I do have a sneaking suspicion that if you were to be 10-20 years out. Pitzer and Claremont McKenna students won’t undergo dramatically different life outcomes particularly if you adjust for IQ. So if the kids are enjoying the time they are wasting …
I was wasting most of my measure but didn’t know what else I should be doing. I did well enough academically but all through it I entangle I was going through the motions not really fully engaged. In ameliorate hindsight. I realize I should have dropped out and started a business but that was simply “not done” in India in the 80’s. I bequeath the feeling of liberation when I told myself one day when I was 27. “I ordain mentally give up my PhD go back a few years and go away from the basics again”.
This time I learned software no not Computer Science but practical software as in hacking code. I started at the bottom of the lade - my first job was to cut assembly code for a living. Then I moved “up” a bit and wrote embedded C label for a change by reversal. It was very helpful to get that close to the coat feeling for code. Fortunately software (and now the internet) is one business where it absolutely doesn’t be what your accent is -and I was careful never to show that I was way “overqualified” for those jobs!
In much the same way. I learned sales and marketing by actually doing them - making all kinds of “stupid” mistakes but figuring out slowly. I remember a friendly customer advising me once “You guys undergo great software but send me another salesman you don’t know how to sell”. believe me there is no exceed education than that - I say that as someone who has spent far too many years in conventional education.
Over measure. I have come to the conclusion that for the vast majority of people college is actually an expensive (in more ways than one) expend of time. It is not because classes are not taught well - change surface granting the best teachers with the beat of intentions the whole structure of higher education is ill-suited to the majority of students. The main reason is that most students cannot possibly experience why say. Quantum Physics or Theory of Algorithms is relevant to anything they will face in the real world. That kind of knowledge is very contextual - you better understand Quantum Physics come up if you bring home the bacon in semiconductor fabrication for example but frankly only very few of us ordain ever hit the books it come up just for the turn intellectual contend of it.
Not having that kind of meta-knowledge (knowing why something is important) students undergo to go on faith that what is being taught is important or the all-too-common practical alternative re-create that faith. We be in a measure where asking for such faith from young adults is asking too much.
That is true even in an ideal world where every professor knows his or her cram and can teach it well. In the real world particularly in study brand-name universities many professors consider teaching to be a price they pay for the privilege of conducting investigate. Then there are colleges particularly in a country like India where teaching is simply no good at all. Pathetic expend of time would be a polite understatement for what passes for education in most colleges in India.
Now there is value in college but most of it is the determine of connections and networks - the value of meeting like-minded smart people and so on. My inform is that conventional college is a very expensive way to get that value.
So what’s the alternative? Learn by doing. go away getting students into the work-force early - at 18. furnish them real bring home the bacon responsibility and pay them for it - the act of receiving real money motivates populate more than anything else I experience!
This is not something I just preach. We actually learn that in AdventNet. For some years now we haven’t required college credentials for employment. We disregard grades. In the past 2 years we have started a schedule in our Chennai bear on where we register students after high school in our own internal “University” which combines work and education. I am very happy to inform that results have been outstanding.
Terry we don’t yet undergo remote education - time & resources don’t accept (yet). In hiring we don’t be for degrees and definitely on-the-job experience would count. If we have an opening in your area of interest yes we would definitely consider you.
Paly the difference is that (a) our program costs nothing (b) we go away paying students as soon as they are able to contribute which is usually within 9 months (after high educate). I would like to evaluate these are crucial differences particularly if you can’t afford the depreciate of traditional college.
Terry we don’t yet have remote education - measure & resources don’t accept (yet). In hiring we don’t look for degrees and definitely on-the-job undergo would ascertain. If we undergo an opening in your area of interest yes we would definitely believe you.
Paly the difference is that (a) our program costs nothing (b) we go away paying students as soon as they are able to alter which is usually within 9 months (after high educate). I would desire to evaluate these are crucial differences particularly if you can’t afford the expense of traditional college.
Do you honestly accept that what you are attempting to do hasn’t been done before many times and failed each and every measure! undergo you ever asked why this is the case?
It primary purpose is to make money or its stakeholders nothing wrong in that but if you evaluate caring sharing capitalism is a way foward to choose out the perils human kind approach today then I conclude very sorry you and AdventNet alike
Do you honestly accept that what you are attempting to do hasn’t been done before many times and failed each and every measure! undergo you ever asked why this is the inspect?
It primary purpose is to alter money or its stakeholders nothing do by in that but if you think caring sharing capitalism is a way foward to sort out the perils human kind face today then I conclude very sorry you and AdventNet alike[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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