| Many good points I agree with. Especially on the mixed blessing of
YouTube etc. > your complaints aren’t actually about education, but about the
increasing specialization of the world. I hadn't noticed. Can you maybe give an example of where my aim is
off? To me, education is at the centre of my thought regardless the
way the world is turning because it's about more than filling jobs. > How is this relevant? (that there are many very successful
self-educated people in the world.) Sure, I meant to imply that actually autodidacts, and the plain-old
'talented' have less opportunity to thrive regardless as certified
education becomes essentially mandatory. Sure, with the right social
connections, supreme confidence and some money you can still freestyle
through life. But requirements for credentials are closing in. The
"Education Industry" is not just about teaching people, it's about
erecting systems of trust and verification, metrics, models, passports
and gatekeepers, serving industry as an outsourced filter and so on. Perhaps I would say; there are many very successful self-educated
people in the world today, who would not make it if they were born now
and faced the gauntlet of the twenty first century judgement machine. > Education reform through technology hit a plateau early. MOOCs seem Yes I am aware of that functional saturation. I was involved early in
research on what we called CBT (computer based training) and we saw
limits as early as 1990. What I am more concerned about now is the non
didactic encroachment of tech. Google and Microsoft are taking over
the academy not in the classroom but at the infrastructural,
communication and behavioural level. This is not a value neutral
prospect, they very much are bringing SV values into places they don't
belong, along with normalising permanent surveillance and extraction
of psychometric data from students. > But you didn’t once mention parents in your comment, which is really
interesting. Oh you got me. I am one, so it's just too confusing. There's a can of worms
there next to a tin-opener and I am resisting the temptation as much
as I can. respects |