I think you missed some of the historic purpose of universities, or at least glossed over them, as your comment that some universities will still benefit form in person attendance. They were also places you could effectively be a patron of the inventive class. I mean historically, you had a lot of rich people doing the gentleman scholar…
I think you missed some of the historic purpose of universities, or at least glossed over them, as your comment that some universities will still benefit form in person attendance. They were also places you could effectively be a patron of the inventive class. I mean historically, you had a lot of rich people doing the gentleman scholar thing. The problem is you aren't necessarily going to came up with the idea, and the ideas make those who can exploit them more wealthy. Either by being kept minds, or by networking with the wealthy to get the short end of the stick post networking on your inventions, this mostly works out as a positive if you are the person making things that can make more money.
There area bunch of universities that create value. It's just that granting diplomas is not that value. But, inherently, the stuff that is worth while is a game of numbers. You NEED to mash as many people through the sieve to avoid missing that value. They just don't want to pay for it, so do as much as possible to shift the cost onto the people who are just there for the piece of paper.
If you are there for the piece of paper, the game has been for quite some time to get it as cheaply as possible, because mostly nobody cares about the brand name on the diploma outside of a handful of prestige universities.
Clayton Christenson ("Innovator's Dilemma") wrote a bunch of stuff years ago on the problems with higher education having too many missions stuffed into one box. Teaching/Learning. Research. Job development. (or something like that.)
The result being confusion, inability to adapt and so forth, and eventually the system is taken over and compromised by bad actors and evil forces, as BJ describes.
Today you can patronize inventives/creatives using crowdsourcing. No need to support the administrative bloat and misaligned incentives that have produced the corpulent nightmare that is "higher" education. Another example of a better system being created to replace a shitty one.
I think you missed some of the historic purpose of universities, or at least glossed over them, as your comment that some universities will still benefit form in person attendance. They were also places you could effectively be a patron of the inventive class. I mean historically, you had a lot of rich people doing the gentleman scholar thing. The problem is you aren't necessarily going to came up with the idea, and the ideas make those who can exploit them more wealthy. Either by being kept minds, or by networking with the wealthy to get the short end of the stick post networking on your inventions, this mostly works out as a positive if you are the person making things that can make more money.
There area bunch of universities that create value. It's just that granting diplomas is not that value. But, inherently, the stuff that is worth while is a game of numbers. You NEED to mash as many people through the sieve to avoid missing that value. They just don't want to pay for it, so do as much as possible to shift the cost onto the people who are just there for the piece of paper.
If you are there for the piece of paper, the game has been for quite some time to get it as cheaply as possible, because mostly nobody cares about the brand name on the diploma outside of a handful of prestige universities.
Clayton Christenson ("Innovator's Dilemma") wrote a bunch of stuff years ago on the problems with higher education having too many missions stuffed into one box. Teaching/Learning. Research. Job development. (or something like that.)
The result being confusion, inability to adapt and so forth, and eventually the system is taken over and compromised by bad actors and evil forces, as BJ describes.
Today you can patronize inventives/creatives using crowdsourcing. No need to support the administrative bloat and misaligned incentives that have produced the corpulent nightmare that is "higher" education. Another example of a better system being created to replace a shitty one.
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