| I wonder if it wouldn't help if colleges/universities fissioned into more specialized institutions. By building gigantic clumps of education a single approach or philosophy drives too much of the bus. A sample set of new schools. . Work oriented, basically four year versions of junior college. Teaches EE, nursing, CSc, accounting, etc. Higher quality (and cheaper) than current for-profit versions. . Research institutions. STEM masters and up. . 'Soft' disciplines. Not just history, cultural anthropology, and the like but also the newfangled xxx studies, diversity equity stuff, etc. . Traditional old school 'classical' college. Essentially the classwork from Harvard in 1900. You don't need too many of these. . Highly specialized schools like Berklee although there was a time when music was learned the old-fashioned way, at bordellos. What we probably don't need is a world where most of the state-funded institutions are huge lumbering megaschools. |