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> It's unfortunate that a quality education is a finite pie. Good that it's not then? With modern technology, one can get started on ultra cheap automated cour

> It's unfortunate that a quality education is a finite pie. Good that it's not then? With modern technology, one can get started on ultra cheap automated courses (not necessarily just static lectures, can be interactive/VR experience like good computer games), coupled with one on one help from paid and volunteer tutors around the world. Than those who show potential can in due time be given access to expensive research equipment and world renoun professors. All without a need to make a life making or breaking decision based on a single admission process. Let students decide for themselves if and when to conclude that a subject is not for them. Current system amounts to artificial gatekeeping of success.

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dotancohen 5y ago
The current system was developed based on almost three thousand years' experience dealing with the finite resource that was education. And if you think that the resource is no longer finite, then are you going to supply and maintain the hardware and infrastructure to provide everybody with an online computer? Are you going to translate the coursework and exams to their languages? Provide the electricity? Provide the meal in the childrens' bellies so that their mind could be on the classwork?
pewpew2020 5y ago
>>> With modern technology, one can get started on ultra cheap automated courses You cannot compare a degree from a well known university with cheap/free online courses. The benefits of a degree from a well known university are immeasurable.
- cutemonster 5y ago
  Did you mean that one learns more there, or that the well-known name of the university makes it simpler to get a nice job?
raxxorrax 5y ago
This is why I don't understand. The logistics of education are cheaper than ever, almost free. Having a personal mentor is of course far more efficient, but that isn't the reality of modern education anyway. What elite institutions offer is mainly connections and access directly into the pipeline of companies in a respective field. There is some benefit to have elite institutions because proximity of highly educated people can spawn a lot of innovation, but a successful education system needs to be broad.

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dotancohen 5y ago

The current system was developed based on almost three thousand years' experience dealing with the finite resource that was education. And if you think that the resource is no longer finite, then are you going to supply and maintain the hardware and infrastructure to provide everybody with an online computer? Are you going to translate the coursework and exams to their languages? Provide the electricity? Provide the meal in the childrens' bellies so that their mind could be on the classwork?

pewpew2020 5y ago

>>> With modern technology, one can get started on ultra cheap automated courses You cannot compare a degree from a well known university with cheap/free online courses. The benefits of a degree from a well known university are immeasurable.

cutemonster 5y ago
Did you mean that one learns more there, or that the well-known name of the university makes it simpler to get a nice job?

raxxorrax 5y ago

This is why I don't understand. The logistics of education are cheaper than ever, almost free. Having a personal mentor is of course far more efficient, but that isn't the reality of modern education anyway. What elite institutions offer is mainly connections and access directly into the pipeline of companies in a respective field. There is some benefit to have elite institutions because proximity of highly educated people can spawn a lot of innovation, but a successful education system needs to be broad.