Does education today cover more material/information? How much would education’s cost decrease if it involved less things?
One way of addressing this is institutions or programs which are narrower in scope. This does get back to “paying more to get more”.
If the real driver of cost is that we’re getting more man-hours of time with professionals who, themselves, have spent more man-hours of time getting educated by other professionals, then in one sense we’re “paying more to get more”, and in another sense we’re not. It’s nice to get more one-on-one time with professors; but part of the reason we get higher education is to be considered for jobs that require a diploma, and the rise in education costs means that a diploma costs more.
This provides an partial answer to a question I’ve had for a while: What would education look like with no teachers? It would apparently be cheaper to a surprising degree (if it’s more expensive to become a teacher, then teachers are more expensive).
It’s nice to get more one-on-one time with professors;
I don’t have data* on this (only anecdotes), but: If people want this, then why don’t they use office hours?
just because you do something in search of a good feeling, does not mean that you will get that good feeling
Could we find a way to measure good feelings, and see what does and doesn’t payoff (probabilities and magnitude)? If that is what we want more of, then what gains might we achieve by a measured approach?
*In the senses of “across the nation” and over time.
Does education today cover more material/information? How much would education’s cost decrease if it involved less things?
One way of addressing this is institutions or programs which are narrower in scope. This does get back to “paying more to get more”.
This provides an partial answer to a question I’ve had for a while: What would education look like with no teachers? It would apparently be cheaper to a surprising degree (if it’s more expensive to become a teacher, then teachers are more expensive).
I don’t have data* on this (only anecdotes), but: If people want this, then why don’t they use office hours?
Could we find a way to measure good feelings, and see what does and doesn’t payoff (probabilities and magnitude)? If that is what we want more of, then what gains might we achieve by a measured approach?
*In the senses of “across the nation” and over time.