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If college degrees lose value, biggest losers would be intelligent students from not well-off background or lacking connections. Unpaid internships would become norm, with a pie-in-sky promise of earnings later, thus destroying social mobility provided by education traditionally. https://twitter.com/svembu/status/1309661754205458433
True, but only by half.
Education's main purpose is signaling mechanism, but contrary to what "college is useless" faction believes in, what is taught in college is extremely useful, much more than experience in a company. Problem lies elsewhere. https://twitter.com/svembu/status/1309658772181192704
Education's main purpose is signaling mechanism, but contrary to what "college is useless" faction believes in, what is taught in college is extremely useful, much more than experience in a company. Problem lies elsewhere. https://twitter.com/svembu/status/1309658772181192704
Main problem is that colleges were meant for higher order education, but have been expanded due to populism.
The metric driven education is both a cause and effect of that expansion, mostly driven by corporates and politicians for different reasons. https://twitter.com/svembu/status/1309663820986552320
The metric driven education is both a cause and effect of that expansion, mostly driven by corporates and politicians for different reasons. https://twitter.com/svembu/status/1309663820986552320
Lobbying body of your industry harped upon "80% of Engineers are useless" in order to create groundwork for increase of engg seats from reasonable 3 lakhs to 15 lakhs (down to 12 lakh now), all to get bench strength of nominal engg to show to clients. https://twitter.com/svembu/status/1309663820986552320
Which brings us to main problem. Economy (especially as primitive than ours) simply could not absorb as many college graduates as colleges produce today.
India also has problem of ever increasing reservations to equalize whom opening new colleges is req. https://twitter.com/svembu/status/1309663820986552320
India also has problem of ever increasing reservations to equalize whom opening new colleges is req. https://twitter.com/svembu/status/1309663820986552320
That metric driven education is for outsiders.
In college with significant non-autistic population, metrics play little role internally. Students do not know who college topper is, but knows who most intelligent student is, which outsiders could not know. https://twitter.com/svembu/status/1309666079996690432
In college with significant non-autistic population, metrics play little role internally. Students do not know who college topper is, but knows who most intelligent student is, which outsiders could not know. https://twitter.com/svembu/status/1309666079996690432
Yes; but "let's all code" approach would be even more driven by metrices than current one.
Anything dealing with scale would eventually be bound to normalize on metrics. You run an internet product company. Don't you collect metrices of your clients? https://twitter.com/svembu/status/1309667589598056449
Anything dealing with scale would eventually be bound to normalize on metrics. You run an internet product company. Don't you collect metrices of your clients? https://twitter.com/svembu/status/1309667589598056449
Fundamentally, our problem is two fold. One is biological limitation of humans which make majority unfit for higher education.
Second is that there are not enough resources, and economy is not enough advanced to provide gainful employment to most.
Second is that there are not enough resources, and economy is not enough advanced to provide gainful employment to most.
Nothing less than interplanetary lebensraum and genetic engineering would ameliorate them.
