A very interesting read:
https://medium.com/1517/a-new-95-ec071200d98f

•   “Would you rather have a Princeton diploma without a Princeton education, or a Princeton education without a Princeton diploma? If you pause to answer, you must think signaling is pretty important.” 

•   "There can be no safety without dangerous ideas."

•   "Harvard could admit ten times as many students, but it doesn’t. It could open ten more campuses in different regions, but it doesn’t. Elite schools are afraid of diluting brand equity. They’re not in the education business. They’re in the luxury watch business."

•   "In 1987, the year Stephen Trachtenberg became president of George Washington University, students paid $27,000 (in 2017 dollars) in tuition, room, and board. When he retired twenty years later, they paid more than double — close to $60,000. Trachtenberg made GW the most expensive school in the nation without improving education at all. The degree “serves as a trophy, a symbol,” he said. “I’m not embarrassed by what we did.” There are buildings on campus named after this guy."

•   "It is no coincidence that the architects of prisons are also the architects of high schools."

•   "We put adults in correctional institutions because of their crimes; we put children in them because of their age."

•   "Bach, Mozart, Beethoven. Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis. The Beatles — no college."

•   "Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Vermeer — no college."

•   "The Wright brothers — with a home library, no college degrees, and a bike shop — kicked off the age of flight. Their main competitor, Samuel P. Langley, a professor of mathematics with grants from the U.S. government and the Smithsonian, crashed into the Potomac."

•   "A third of billionaires don’t have college degrees."

•   "We are in a crisis. Less school, more freedom."

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And remember the quote of Naval Ravikant:
"The internet is the best school ever created. The best peers are on the Internet. The best books are on the Internet. The best teachers are on the Internet. The tools for learning are abundant. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce."


I am looking forward to the spreading of knowledge through the internet, to all corners of the world.
Here is a great book on schools and education: https://www.amazon.com/Weapons-Mass-Instruction-Schoolteachers-Compulsory/dp/0865716692

And, hopefully, the Steem Network will be an important part of education and knowledge transfer, e.g. via https://steemit.com/@steemstem.

Cheers, and have a nice weekend!