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Gates has no teaching experience and no academic credentials in education. We should listen to him because... he's rich? Any 22 year old first year teacher is m

• mc32 14y ago
  Interestingly, one thought is that "credentials" may not be as importsant in the future --it will be more about what you can demonstrate rather than what certification one has achieved. Gates may have not finished his schooling and may not be an educator, but he does talk to educators and people who know education. I think that's where he's getting his foundation for his ideas from.
  • rbanffy 14y ago
    > "credentials" may not be as importsant in the future He still has no experience in education. Trust me it's not something you learn from talking to educators and people who know education. I have spent years of my early career developing educational software and would not dare to imply I am as qualified as the educators and psychologists who worked with me.
• Fando 14y ago
  jeez ahi, that is an incredibly narrow-minded view of the way things actually are.
• gwern 14y ago
  Gates has spent years and many millions of dollars on tinkering with education and running experiments (some randomized controlled experiments) on education, which I'm sure he read the results of at least some of them. Given how easily 22 year olds can fool themselves, I'd venture to suggest that Gates after internalizing just one RCT of education has learned more than that 22 year old.