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> it also made me wonder if you couldn’t just use these lectures everywhere English speaking Having educators is essential for the health of any society. Educa

> it also made me wonder if you couldn’t just use these lectures everywhere English speaking Having educators is essential for the health of any society. Educators who constantly revise the material, learn it themselves, and teach it to others. Who themselves become informal or formal teachers. This is one of the ways societies deal with change. The educational requirements change with time and place. The teachers themselves are learning all the time. Some are temporarily bad. Some are permanently bad because of bad job incentives or bad evaluation systems. Replace all this with centrally produced lectures and your society will seriously deteriorate because of the gaps between what needs to be taught at different places and times and what is taught at those places and times will widen considerably. Please understand that societies are intricate trees and vines, not machines.

devjab 2y ago
> Having educators is essential for the health of any society. Educators who constantly revise the material, learn it themselves, and teach it to others I’m not sure a lot of our educators really fall into the latter category. But even if you’re not corporation for the lecture part, at the very least our own educators could do video lectures and make those available. Maybe that might even make some of them improve their teaching styles. When they get to see themselves teach.
- abdullahkhalids 2y ago
  Many professors are indeed bad. The reasons for this are almost entirely incentive structures in academia. How universities get their money, what professors are hired for, what they get salary increments for, etc. Fix those incentives and you won't have to do any of the things you suggest [1]. Good teachers want to teach well, the same way good musicians is always itching to play good music. [1] Though more but not all lectures should be recorded.

devjab 2y ago

> Having educators is essential for the health of any society. Educators who constantly revise the material, learn it themselves, and teach it to others I’m not sure a lot of our educators really fall into the latter category. But even if you’re not corporation for the lecture part, at the very least our own educators could do video lectures and make those available. Maybe that might even make some of them improve their teaching styles. When they get to see themselves teach.

abdullahkhalids 2y ago
Many professors are indeed bad. The reasons for this are almost entirely incentive structures in academia. How universities get their money, what professors are hired for, what they get salary increments for, etc. Fix those incentives and you won't have to do any of the things you suggest [1]. Good teachers want to teach well, the same way good musicians is always itching to play good music. [1] Though more but not all lectures should be recorded.