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thenewgreen  ·  4625 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Lender’s Bagels and the Power of Mediocrity
I grew up with his bagels in my families freezer as a constant. -horrible things.

    And if you look at the health care and higher education corners of the American economy where spiraling costs are bankrupting the middle class, you see sectors that are largely untouched by this kind of low-end innovation.

I would argue that higher education is taking a page out of this book with the advent of low cost online education etc.





dublinben  ·  4625 days ago  ·  link  ·  
I hope that online courses can deliver education to underserved populations, but they're hardly a replacement for a physical classroom or laboratory. The quality of instruction really is mediocre at best.
thenewgreen  ·  4625 days ago  ·  link  ·  
Yeah, I agree. I've participated in both forms of education. Either way though, you get what you put in but it's a whole lot easier to get from a traditional classroom setting. I also think with certain disciplines it's only a nominal difference.

Eventually, much of education (even ivy league, high brow, top shelf schools) will be streaming most lectures and using classroom settings for more practical purposes. -hands on learning and Q&A. The days rolling out of bed at 7am to be at an 8am lecture so a professor can talk at you are over.