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That's a very cynical, narrow, and depressing view of what education is. I very much doubt that view is shared by anyone that started or worked on Coursera or a
by Perceptes 10y ago
That's a very cynical, narrow, and depressing view of what education is. I very much doubt that view is shared by anyone that started or worked on Coursera or any other MOOC.
- mark_edward 10y agoIt's a view about why people get education, not what education's potential is. If I felt I had the luxury to go to college and spend 4 years and thousands of dollars broadening my horizons, I know what I would study, what classes I would take, what professors I would talk to. But I don't feel that secure and so I am doing something completely different. I enjoy learning, I really do. I spend my freetime reading texts about what I love and talking to other more educated people who've studied it. It's not why I went to college, and not why people told me to go to college ever since I was old enough to understand arguments about my future life prospects and career and etc. It's not why my aunt who's been a nanny for 20 years is going to com-college, It's not why my mom is becoming a CPA, it's not why my dad went to engineering school, etc.