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I don't understand why people pay for education in the first place. With the internet and sites like Kahn Academy the only reason to pay for education is to acquire an increasingly worthless piece of paper.
30 posted on 07/01/2012 4:55:16 AM PDT by Mycroft Holmes (<= Mash name for HTML Xampp PHP C JavaScript primer. Programming for everyone.)
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To: Mycroft Holmes

What an amazing site! Thanks for that.


42 posted on 07/01/2012 5:17:39 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
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To: Mycroft Holmes
"I don't understand why people pay for education in the first place. With the internet and sites like Kahn Academy the only reason to pay for education is to acquire an increasingly worthless piece of paper."

Eventually, that will happen. The "Home Schooling" movement is (was?) the start. The thing that the "ed biz" has previously provided was some "up front" measure of how well an individual was equipped to function in/at some kind of work that prospective employers could count on. They have successfully diluted/denigrated that function to the point where they/it no longer serve(s) that purpose. Guilds and unions once did this task, but they abandoned it (mostly) to the "professional educators".

One proposal that I saw that actually makes a kind of sense is some (or a group of) certified testing facilities. An individual would go to one of them, take a written plus practical comprehensive exam, and be "blessed" as skilled to a certain degree in a certain subject, thus divorcing the mode of obtaining the skill from the proof of possessing it.

But it's a BIG ship, and changing direction will take time. I think the end result will be exactly as you postulate.

137 posted on 07/01/2012 9:31:35 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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I had to log in just to tell you THANK YOU. I have never herd of such a site, and I am immensely grateful for you posting that. I have had a friend who has been asking me to help him understand economics for some time, but I’m not able to explain everything I know. Now he can watch the videos on that site and learn at his own pace! Thanks again.

(Ironically, he stopped going to College because he didn’t want to pay tens of thousands of dollars for that “increasingly worthless piece of paper.” I feel the same way, now, although years ago, I did get two of them, lol).


202 posted on 07/01/2012 7:57:14 PM PDT by JDW11235 (http://www.thirty-thousand.org/ AND "The fat, spoiled, complacent kid is going on a diet." -Unkus)
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