| On the second part, as Inunderstand it the Netherlands expects an 18 year old to spend the next five years in some combination of three years education, a years volunteering and a years travelling. The goal is well rounded citizens not corporate trained drones. Is it expensive - of course. Is it necessary to educate all your citizens like this? No of course not - just stick the the rich ones, or the ones with certain racial traits or no disabilities … oh sorry sarcasm was turned on Yes it’s expensive and yes the state should pay. The elite have been attending universities for ever and have worked out a deal till the 1990s where the elite could keep going as long as they paid for the brightest to attend and accepted the less smelly brightest into the elite levels. However this is falling apart - the actress paying for her daughter to go to IVy league colleges knew, Donald Trump admits it, the whole thing is rigged and you need money to buy the contacts. Honestly I don’t know where I am going with that except to say you cannot fix university without fixing what comes after - business investment shoukd be based not on who your banker knows but … As for the first part, yeah we could have amazing teachers and amazing researchers and amazing administrators rolled into the same person but, bear with me, it might be viable to have different people do many of those roles. Look, groking calculus is rarely an issue of how clever the person who explains it is. It’s mostly how hard you bang your head on the desk doing the problems. Most teaching is making sure you keep banging your head. Making it entertaining is just tricking kids that the next level will also be fun. It’s only fun if you enjoy not knowing and the process of problem solving. |
I agree: researchers should not be hired to teaching positions because they are good researchers. Teachers should be hired based on their ability to teach.
I don't mind the idea of teaching yourself; I think education should actually have LESS lecturing because I don't think it's an effective means of knowledge transfer. My problem, though, is that you PAY to be there for the lectures (sometimes specific, world renowned lecturers) and then they can't even be bothered to show up for work. Then they just throw around some bullshit about how it's the student's responsibility to do the work and teach themselves. I would buy this if the student wasn't paying so much. It straight up does not cost that much money to provide a library and resources to a student to teach themself things: local communities do this on a shoestring budget all the time. Colleges cost so much in part because of the salaries of people who don't give a fuck about their jobs and somehow consider it a VIRTUE to not show up for work. College professors are some of the most entitled, lazy pricks I've ever met