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How about: who cares? Isn’t this hacker news? Aren’t we all supposed to be hackers who are upending the existing system? How about we build our own Harvards
by blhack 7y ago
How about: who cares? Isn’t this hacker news? Aren’t we all supposed to be hackers who are upending the existing system?
How about we build our own Harvards where anybody who wants to study can come and learn whatever they want? And the network comes from being surrounded by other people who cared enough to learn.
We don’t need these places anymore. We’ll find our own funding and do our own research and screw the system. We’ll build our own system.
- filoleg 7y agoOr you can just attend a school in CA, where this kind of admission process has been made illegal [0]. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_California_Proposition_209 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_California_Proposition_20...
- toroszo 7y agoyes sir! oops, is that not inclusive enough? I would like to rephrase then: yes person!
- cm2187 7y agoWell, there is a growing movement of conservatives that are unimpressed with this and with the general politics of universities, and who are becoming anti-college (and the booming cost of the said colleges provides additional arguments). I think it is a bit dangerous, but in essence it joins your argument. I personally think that the education aspect of colleges is massively overrated, that the quality of the university pretty much all comes from the quality of its recruitment (its students). The teaching is typically very average (researchers aren't necessarily good professors). But if the game is that this badge is required to land a high paying job, a kid today doesn't really have a choice. It's kind of a prisonner dilemna. We could have a system where the name of the university wouldn't matter that much. That's pretty much how Germany works if I understand correctly.
- TulliusCicero 7y agoYou can believe exactly that but still acknowledge that institutions like Harvard have a certain amount of power, and believe that if they use it in a discriminatory way that's bad.
- telchar 7y agoI would recommend reading [0] before being so quick to tear everything down. You're replacing the devil you know with the devil you don't know, so I think it's worth making a point of learning more about that one. [0] https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm https://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm
- gdy 7y ago"We’ll build our own system." ...with blackjack and hookers!
- blhack 7y agoWe’ll build our own system! With bitcoin and tensorflow!