[grammr]

"If one wants a more educated populace, the answer is less school, not more."

This is the most ignorant statement I've seen on HN so far this year. Institutional education is far from perfect, but that hardly means we are better off without it. You denounce education because people manage to learn a lot outside of schools, but the materials and resources that enable such learning are direct byproducts of academia itself.

[smokeyj]

I think there's room to debate institutionalized vs informal learning methods. Tech skills in market demand evolve faster than institutions can effectively keep up with, which means informal learning is a requisite for becoming competitive anyways. This isn't bad either.

Informal education would rely on certification, internships, and on-site training, which are all cost-effective. I'm just saying a debate could be had :)