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I'm curious what would happen , if we gather a few classes of intelligent highly motivated students , arrange them a cheap nice place to live , give them them g
by petra 11y ago
I'm curious what would happen , if we gather a few classes of intelligent highly motivated students , arrange them a cheap nice place to live , give them them great educational content(not the stuff you get out of today's mooc's , the good stuff that the UK's open university - an expert in remote learning - designed over decades) , give them some support and some tools(labs , parts, etc) , and connect them through the web to their respective communities.
Surely that could be much cheaper. But would be just as good ? maybe.
And as for prestige ? if you build the admission process on extremely high standards , and offer something unique that the big universities won't offer , maybe you'll manage to get extremely talented students. And that's the key for building prestige.
Makes sense ?
EDIT: one more question - once you're an esteemed graduate of this institution ,sort of a "navy seal", in this day and age where talent is the limited resource in making money(and surviving in business), how hard would it be to arrange the networking ?
Ans isn't all this kinda like what ycombinator did?
- WalterBright 11y agoI think that still underestimates the effect the professor has on the students. There's nothing like a professor who is excited about the topic of his lectures. Take a look at some of Feynman's youtube lectures, and imagine hearing that stuff in person! It's like the difference between listening to a CD and going to a concert.
- petra 11y agoGreat teachers(not feynman's level, but still great) for standard subjects(math, physics, etc) shouldn't be that expensive. There are still a lot of savings to be had.
- eru 11y agoEspecially if you select your teachers for actual teaching ability, as opposed to citation count on their papers. Teaching ability is undervalued by the market.