One issue with the chain of logic: The value proposition of school is NOT the lectures. It’s other things:
Good teachers who can individualize instruction (software cannot do this yet, even state of the art like Knewton is rudimentary compared to a good teacher)
Signaling (Everyone knows that if you learned at harvard you’ve already been preselected, nobody knows this about random person watching a video online)
I agree in large part with what you said, but the two issues above need to be solved.
I agree that other things like personalized attention and signaling matter. But I think the lessons and lectures do matter a lot (enough to be talked about anyway). And I think that getting into that other stuff now would be going down a deep enough rabbit hole such that it’d be unproductive for this conversation.
One issue with the chain of logic: The value proposition of school is NOT the lectures. It’s other things:
Good teachers who can individualize instruction (software cannot do this yet, even state of the art like Knewton is rudimentary compared to a good teacher)
Signaling (Everyone knows that if you learned at harvard you’ve already been preselected, nobody knows this about random person watching a video online)
I agree in large part with what you said, but the two issues above need to be solved.
I agree that other things like personalized attention and signaling matter. But I think the lessons and lectures do matter a lot (enough to be talked about anyway). And I think that getting into that other stuff now would be going down a deep enough rabbit hole such that it’d be unproductive for this conversation.