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"When I put the bubble hypothesis to Norton Grubb, professor of higher education at the University of California, Berkeley, his response in an email was that th
by ryanjmo 15y ago
"When I put the bubble hypothesis to Norton Grubb, professor of higher education at the University of California, Berkeley, his response in an email was that the bubble hypothesis was "ridiculous". He went on:
'The problem is that there are no other routes to better occupations and higher salaries anymore, except for those who have odd skills (athletes, rock stars, starlets willing to reveal all) - which most of us don't have.'"
Programing and start-up skills allow people to get better occupations and higher salaries without education. This is only going to continue to be more prevalent in the future; especially as these skills become more available to the masses through resources like HN and incubators like YC.
I think education is in trouble...
- Eddk 15y agoDon't flatter yourself... There is a lot that goes into building an advanced economy beyond startups...Not to mention start-ups need educated workers to become successful. This whole meme about education not being necessary is utter nonsense. Only someone who has the narrowest understanding of how our world works would subscribe to such a notion... do you want "half-assed"/"Sam teach yourself aerodynamics in 21 days" engineers building your aircrafts? I don't think so.
- georgecmu 15y agodo you want "half-assed"/"Sam teach yourself aerodynamics in 21 days" engineers building your aircrafts? I don't want "Sam teach yourself C/C++ in 21 days" programmers to code for me either.
- younata 15y agoYou suffer from a common delusion here: everybody wants to program. I attend a uni where probably 75% of students are in either science or engineering, yet I still come across a lot of people who don't like coding (example: my current roommate). Just because it's becoming easier for people to learn to program doesn't mean that people want to learn it.