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Originally Posted by Brian Swartz
I'm still on the side that we need to think about how to intelligently move away from traditional college/university as our education model. I'm absolutely 100% in favor of education being important as a life-long endeavor. I'm also convinced that we will eventually need to find better ways of doing that than college, and that most of the advantages that college once had have been eclipsed/made irrelevant by technological and societal change. The sooner we figure that out and adapt, the better future generations will be.
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I agree 100%, but good luck with that. Every parent wants their kid to have a good white collar job, and any good white collar job requires a B.A. as a minimum.
And we're not going to improve K-12 education because the communities where 90% of it is paid for by property taxes are never going to vote for a system which uses solely state or federal money instead, even if you tell them their property taxes will go down as a result (because they like their better schools).
I hate to be unbelievably pessimistic, but I think it only changes when it fails completely, but I'm not 100% sure what that looks like because there's good evidence that it's already in failure.