college
Anya Kamenetz on rapidly morphing landscape of higher education
A great interview with Anya Kamenetz outlines some of the ways that higher education is rapidly changing drawing on the concepts in her book, DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education. I recommend reading the whole interview but one of my main concerns is the cost of higher ed. While the [...]
is college worth the time?
Economist Bryan Caplan seems to think it isn’t,
US colleges are getting stupider
The images below show the results of the General Social Survey WORDSUM tests for the periods 1974-1984 and 1998-2008. These tests demonstrate general vocabulary scores. What you’ll notice is that the gap between the non-degree holders and the degree holders has shrunk significantly over a few decades.
machine motivations: elite college edition
The typical college student focuses on one of many set career paths instead of understanding that our human existence is a beautiful gift we can give to the world. As we’ve become disconnected from this understanding, university graduates have focused ever more on exterior metrics of success. Removing the internal motivation that results in byproducts [...]
the greatest email ever received (by me)
For those of you that may remember, a few weeks ago I received a rejection email from Stanford University to my dismay. Fortunately, an hour later Stanford emailed me back to say that I had been sent this message in error and that a decision had not yet been made on my admission for this [...]
