It’s encouraging because the current system is providing a woefully ineffective product that takes too long, costs too much and offers little practical value. The same goes for high school as well.
Regarding the product she is selling, I didn’t look much into it, but I’ll say this, if it offers people an alternative, less expensive and streamlined education/career path than the traditional four year route than good!
Tell me this, how many people want to spend $80,000-$200,000 (and even more) just so they can learn more history, sociology, philosophy, etc? All stuff you can find on the internet for free by the way.
As someone who taught high school the answer is so they can get a white-collar job. Few if any people are going to college and spending a ■■■■ load of money just so they can sit in classrooms for four more years of their lives to listen (actually more likely daydreaming) to lectures on largely irrelevant material that most of them find rather boring.
The “well-roundedness” argument is bunch of ■■■■■■■■■ I’ll post the author’s comments from the OP again:
I studied economics and mathematical finance, coursework that sounds practical but was in fact largely useless to both my startup and my Wall Street career . Like many finance firms, my first employer had no expectation that recent grads (all from top universities) had adequate preparation for the job —all new hires go through intensive training programs.
Even if students were exposed to relevant material in college, they likely experienced lecture-based teaching, which remains the dominant form of instruction. A whopping 80% of undergrad STEM classes are based on lectures. But listening passively doesn’t lead to knowledge retention, and the research clearly shows that this method doesn’t work. I graduated with the highest honors, and very little of what I “learned” stuck past final exams.
I’m just saying - the best lawyer job I could take right now would be in Government Contracts law.
I’d make very good money, but at best (worst) I’d be spending my life helping defense contractors secure contracts to build weapons. More likely I’d spend most of my time representing ■■■■■■ little companies trying to scam the government on janitorial contracts.
Have you heard of the internet? It’s a whole cheaper than paying to sit in classrooms. Seriously though, you must have money to burn if you can do that.