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> In this infographic Bret Victor claims that expecting college education to prepare you for a day job is an invalid idea. No, he opposes forming policy around
by technomancy 13y ago
> In this infographic Bret Victor claims that expecting college education to prepare you for a day job is an invalid idea.
No, he opposes forming policy around the idea that the primary purpose of education should be vocational. In reality, most US education policy already works this way, so completely divorced from any value judgement, as a student it would be foolish to pretend it isn't already true.
> Oh, you missed that in his infographic? It's probably because it conveniently wasn't there.
Maybe he left it out of the post because he is interested in criticizing a subset of the marketing, not because he wants to lambast code.org and needs to hide the fact that many of the quotations are agreeable.