Thanks again to dalke to the hopefully continuing critique. I'd love to hear your thoughts and concerns as well, dear reader. That said, I'd like to take a mom

Thanks again to dalke to the hopefully continuing critique. I'd love to hear your thoughts and concerns as well, dear reader. That said, I'd like to take a moment to discuss my motivation behind developing this model. Beyond the ordinary entrepreneurial reasons of wanting to make a big splash and getting frustrated by an issue, I believe that the need of the consumer is changing and that the education industry's focus must change with it. Up until approximately the Industrial Revolution, education was focused almost solely on vocation training or procedural mastery. Education not focused on vocational training was focused on providing "culture". Over time, abstract information grew and gained value in the eye of the general public as applications for it were found. Various societal factors required credible wielders of this abstract knowledge to also have "culture". As a result, the education industry created the monastery, the university, and the liberal arts college - all of which focused on conceptual mastery. Conceptual mastery education did not and will never replace vocational mastery education. It simply provided another path to success for a select (but still growing) fraction of the population. However, both conceptual and procedural mastery are becoming obsolete in the face of technological advances. There's no reason to memorize calculus formulas or accounting algorithms where they are already stored in code libraries distributed across the globe and available at the touch of a button. There's no reason to learn how to build air conditioning systems when a robot can do that faster, more efficiently, and more reliably. These days, we're even automating roles involving human interaction and medical diagnosis. So what kind of occupational roles will last in a world where responsibilities of ever increasing complexity are being automated? What qualities will those roles require? My answer is that the required qualities will be: The detection of highly complex and possibly almost abstract problems (Predicting consumer intent, for example), initiative & drive (Let's face it: dealing with complex issues is exhausting. That's why we create stereotypes & labels. That's why we give directions in landmarks or major roads. That's why America has a two party political system.), and the ability to conceive of and create solutions, whether those solutions take the form of physical devices, abstract systems, or human organizations. Just like educational institutions focused on conceptual mastery did not and will not completely replace institutions focused on procedural mastery, my institution will not completely replace current liberal arts colleges. I do think that I will take a significant (and ever growing) fraction of the education market, however.