First of all, cheers to you for taking up a challenge like this!! Many people want to make a difference like this, but very few are willing to truly make the sacrifices that are required to do so - you're genuinely impacting people's lives in a positive way, and should be proud of that!!
Ok, question time. So it seems over the past couple years, slowly but surely more people are moving to lead an open-source style of education - things like what your doing, what Khan Academy is doing, various YouTubers, etc. - for the purpose of providing a meaningful & accurate curriculum to whomever wants it. Furthermore, these platforms allow students to proceed at their own pace, something our current institutions don't really accommodate. One could argue that the education & knowledge you receive within your first year or two of college (calc 1 thru diffEq,physics 101, chem 101, bio 101, etc), could be obtained over the internet for free at their own pace, it's just a matter of proving the knowledge obtained. Since you've been involved in both higher education as well as "underground" (for lack of a better term) education, I pose two questions from this:
1) Do you see the future of the US's education system (~50 years or so) moving away from our current institutions and more towards the open-source, internet-based style that you provide?
2) Currently, our universities double as not only institutions of higher learning, but also essentially cash cows. If this "change" of education platform were to take place, I could only assume Universities would not go down without a fight, as all money-making industries do. In what ways do you think that Colleges & Unis would fight or push back against this change, or attempt to slow it down/discredit it?
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First of all, cheers to you for taking up a challenge like this!! Many people want to make a difference like this, but very few are willing to truly make the sacrifices that are required to do so - you're genuinely impacting people's lives in a positive way, and should be proud of that!!
Ok, question time. So it seems over the past couple years, slowly but surely more people are moving to lead an open-source style of education - things like what your doing, what Khan Academy is doing, various YouTubers, etc. - for the purpose of providing a meaningful & accurate curriculum to whomever wants it. Furthermore, these platforms allow students to proceed at their own pace, something our current institutions don't really accommodate. One could argue that the education & knowledge you receive within your first year or two of college (calc 1 thru diffEq,physics 101, chem 101, bio 101, etc), could be obtained over the internet for free at their own pace, it's just a matter of proving the knowledge obtained. Since you've been involved in both higher education as well as "underground" (for lack of a better term) education, I pose two questions from this:
1) Do you see the future of the US's education system (~50 years or so) moving away from our current institutions and more towards the open-source, internet-based style that you provide?
2) Currently, our universities double as not only institutions of higher learning, but also essentially cash cows. If this "change" of education platform were to take place, I could only assume Universities would not go down without a fight, as all money-making industries do. In what ways do you think that Colleges & Unis would fight or push back against this change, or attempt to slow it down/discredit it?
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