Comments on: How to get people excited about education

By: edumatedelhi

edumatedelhi — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 09:02:15 +0000

This info is very apt. I really like it. Beneficial and up to the mark.Thanks a lot for such great information.

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By: stat_arb

stat_arb — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 22:58:23 +0000

Where do the 1% 50% 90% yield numbers come from?

By: brotherkenny4

brotherkenny4 — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 19:59:41 +0000

Too bad you can’t just join a frat without going to college. I say that because no one with a real education gets promoted to a position of authority, only heavy drinking frat boys. Sycophantcy is the path of success. You don’t really need to study for that. I mean even look at what get’s reported here at Reuter’s. It’s a bunch of junk designed not offend the masters of industry. You guys bash electric cars (proof of sycophantcy), you talk like americans have freedom (proof of sycophantcy), you pretend like there is a difference between the two political parties (proof of sycophantcy) and on and on. On every topic which I know the specific detailed truth through personal experience you give the story a spin that is approved by the puppeteers of our leaders.

By: mfw13

mfw13 — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 01:21:43 +0000

I think that this reveals that much of what constitutes “education” these days has very little to do with actual learning.

By: hypermark

hypermark — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 18:47:59 +0000

What a lot of this points to is that we have to get a lot smarter about how we think about segmentation, the “jobs” and yields that each segment is designed for, and finally, the systems approach required to funnel users for informed to engaged to monetized to deeply engaged and deeply monetized.

By: solotar

solotar — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:59:55 +0000

The Opera analogy is a good one, but most of Higher Ed is going to die. People with lots of savings go to the Opera 5 times a year because they choose to, whereas lots of people with no savings go to college hundreds of days a year because they feel they have to get a diploma to get a job. Once the MOOCs can tee up dozens of graduates to corporations, and once these graduates show themselves to be the equal of the sociology majors from the $60,000/year University of the Pacific, no one will pay $60,000 for UOP. Employers will still want people who got into Harvard, and people will still want to go to Harvard for the same reasons they’ll want to join the tony country club, but no one will be under any illusions. For about 70% of its consumers, Higher Ed is a bad joke in which students are taught to pose and mimic (and drink beer and get laid.)

By: fresnodan

fresnodan — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 11:09:12 +0000

I agree.
I call it the flower vender supply curve. Flower shops may think that flower street venders steal business by undercutting them, but they probably increase business for the shops over time.
A guy who would never spend 30$ on flowers might spend 5-10$ for a small bouquet. As he gets in the habit, he might feel the desire to splurge on Valentin’s day, birthdays, anniversaries, etecetera.

And one other point re crendentialing versus interest, is true expertize. There may not be a lot of people who are truly facinated by accounting, but undoubtedly, a good number who are, are unable to get credentialing due to current costs.

By: FifthDecade

FifthDecade — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:53:01 +0000

In the UK we have the BBC which broadcasts programs on BBC 4 made for the Open University which are hugely educational and very interesting even if you are not on a specific course.

That’s the difference between TV for profit and TV designed to “Inform, educate, entertain”.