| The importance of education is unparalleled in the current state of world. Looking at the unrest in recent college pass outs, I would prefer if we could bring Apprenticeship back. In current times we have a variation of it called internship, but for most people they still have to go through a full fledged college education to become eligible for that internship. Of course, Apprenticeship is not the answer for all fields but it would be good if companies also got into the business of educating people ( for money ) but treating them not just as a student but more like an apprentice. An alternative would be to have collaboration between businesses and educational institutions to reduce the gap between learning and applying what you learned. This can be relatively easily applied in developed nations and a bit hard to apply in developing / underdeveloped countries. I graduated 3 years ago from a college in India. Luckily, I was interested in my field enough to start researching about how things we learned in college, worked in real life. But for most of my fellow classmates, it was just for the sake of getting a degree and supposedly becoming employable right after passing out. So when they actually passed out, the world was quite different than what they had expected. Those are my 2 cents. YCombinator too believes in the power of education.
This was posted in September 2016 - https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/#education |
BTW, I think your terminology of "passing out" for graduating college is confusing (at least for Americans?). I've never heard the term used in that way. Passing out is more commonly used to mean fainting or falling asleep.