An Open Letter of Educators

[Aesop Rocks]

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I kind of agree with him.

 

[Majic Walrus]

He doesn't know what "begs the question" means. He needs some education. He should take a college class or something.

I agree with him for the most part though. However I would say that "education" is valuable while "information" is not. In college I was often told "do not use the internet to research" and I just saw an episode of X-Men Evolution (shut up, I was bored) where the same kind of teaching was done to Xavier's kids.

Is that bad? Necessarily it isn't. What the "internet" revolution does to education is not liberate it and make it free what the internet revolution does is make information easily available.

However practically employers are not in the business of hiring people who have access to information but who are educated. Institutional education isn't about providing information to a person it's about sparking interests so that students who are educated can go and do something and build creativity onto their education and experience.

That being said: I use NONE of what I went to college for in my job and my job doesn't even require a college degree, but I'm sure that having a college degree helped me get the job because my employer can see that I have the desire to complete practical education.

Futhermore if someone has the necessary drives to build creativity on their education they can be every bit as successful and have every bit as much impact with or without institutional education. But that person will not have as easy a time as someone with a degree.

So it amounts to this. He is right totally and completely. But no one is going to hire someone who's education comes from the internet so buck up and do the ****.

 

[Aesop Rocks]

Well actually, popular people on YouTube get PAID to make **** like this.

 

[The Battousai]

If they are offered partnership and agree to have ads on their videos and page, and being paid a small percentage of the ad money, yes.

 

[The Battousai]

I don't know what it is, but his demeanor seems really put-on to me.

 

[Prison Mike]

he reminds me of Glenn Beck actually...

 

[Aesop Rocks]

I didn't see him making the story about his battle with alcoholism though, Mike.

 

[E-Man]

This guy brings up good points. Information is something that is so easily accessed now, so it does lower the value of it. If you need to find something out, it's only a Google away from your fingertips. What needs to probably change in educating is teaching how to use the information, and also teaching what makes a credible source. Credibility is something that will define the future of information. People only take sources seriously if they believe where it comes from, so the next generation of education should define what it is to be legitimately credible.

I think that him dropping out won't matter if he has entrepreneurial aspirations. If he plans to work independently, then him dropping out won't even matter. I did something similar to him a few years back, but I'm in pursuit of an I.T. certification that would allow me to do some extra fun stuff on the side. I wish this guy luck with his personal education. It is fun as hell when you learn things on your own.

 

[Prison Mike]

I didn't see him making the story about his battle with alcoholism though, Mike.

there were a few close up shots. I thought he would cry when he talked about his time at college...