I do agree that it has a purpose. I discuss two of those: increasing human capital and the public good of an educated citizenry. Do you have any others in mind?
My goal isn’t necessarily to directly improve education for the median knowledge-worker. I want to start by improving it for smarter and more self-directed students and then see for how well it can generalize. Focusing on smart people first is kinda the point, since if the system you build attracts smart people, it’s going to be a stronger signal of intelligence.
But I think you underestimate how many people would see my proposed model as an improvement. Just taking the field of programming, the project I’d like to start would make it easier for all those who already get into programming without a formal education, and all those who’d like to, but lack the social support and accountability to be successful following that route. I think that represents a decent amount of people.
And it’s not as if the population of intrinsically curious people is restricted to people who are math-inclined.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the kind of environment I envision, with someone responsible to keep people on track and hold people accountable, would in fact be better for most students than the Zoom university they are getting now.
Not sure what risks you are thinking of. My own project at least just seems like a competitor to bootcamps, except >3x cheaper. I don’t think anything I’m proposing is particularly risky. Could you elaborate on this?
I do agree that it has a purpose. I discuss two of those: increasing human capital and the public good of an educated citizenry. Do you have any others in mind?
My goal isn’t necessarily to directly improve education for the median knowledge-worker. I want to start by improving it for smarter and more self-directed students and then see for how well it can generalize. Focusing on smart people first is kinda the point, since if the system you build attracts smart people, it’s going to be a stronger signal of intelligence.
But I think you underestimate how many people would see my proposed model as an improvement. Just taking the field of programming, the project I’d like to start would make it easier for all those who already get into programming without a formal education, and all those who’d like to, but lack the social support and accountability to be successful following that route. I think that represents a decent amount of people.
And it’s not as if the population of intrinsically curious people is restricted to people who are math-inclined.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the kind of environment I envision, with someone responsible to keep people on track and hold people accountable, would in fact be better for most students than the Zoom university they are getting now.
Not sure what risks you are thinking of. My own project at least just seems like a competitor to bootcamps, except >3x cheaper. I don’t think anything I’m proposing is particularly risky. Could you elaborate on this?