Comments on: Modern universities are an exercise in insanity

By: TRX

TRX — Tue, 30 Jan 2018 16:30:16 +0000

Colleges aren’t selling education. You can get education for free — sometimes even from those same colleges, which are increasingly putting their entire curricula online.

What colleges are selling are credentials, which are not the same as education.

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 18:07:11 +0000

The higher education bubble will pop, but it will probably require a larger economic crisis along with some structural changes that hit a tipping point. It’s coming.

By: Grasspunk

Grasspunk — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 17:51:33 +0000

And you get the benefit of Bloom’s 2-sigma problem/mastery learning which I learned from some crazy site called isegoria.net.

By: Off The Street

Off The Street — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 17:07:49 +0000

Home schooling growth should come as no surprise, given the diluted missions of primary, secondary and tertiary education. Good luck finding out and learning about Jefferson, Madison and Lincoln unless you really look, and are prepared to endure some discomfort in the process.

John Gatto was right in his indictment of American education.

By: Wilson

Wilson — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 15:43:19 +0000

Grade-school spending is approaching $20k per head.

By: Anonymous Machine

Anonymous Machine — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 13:33:53 +0000

Partially due to taxpayer “generosity”, but in-state tuition to many public universities costs less than $20,000 a year. While tuition costs are out of control, some of the eye-popping student loan balances are due to student choices to attend more expensive, out-of-state universities, while not being eligible or not trying to access scholarships, etc.