Clayton Christensen: Half of U.S. colleges will be bankrupt in 10 to 15 years

Re:Clayton Christensen: Half of U.S. colleges will be bankru... by madrox on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @12:34PM (#17910317)

Let me see if I can give this a shot:

1. Nature...have you tried it?

2. Meetups and other social gatherings around various interests and trades

3. OkCupid, Tinder, etc.

4. ...a job? Jira? One of a number of existing mechanisms for accountability?

There you go! I found game over for you!

As someone who didn't go to college until their late 20s, I would've foregone the whole thing if I could've done it online. I think people overvalue the "go to college after high school" thing just because it's become such an accepted practice, but it's a normality fallacy.

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Re:Clayton Christensen: Half of U.S. colleges will be bankru... by HarryHirsch on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @12:48PM (#17910475)

There's a difference between "going to college" to take classes, and dedicating oneself to a subject in an environment with capable peers and professors.

Here's what the latter looks like: http://cds.cern.ch/record/548966/files/0204295.pdf

Unfortunately, the great majority of young people only gets to experience the only former, and they are being cheated and don't even know it.

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Re:Clayton Christensen: Half of U.S. colleges will be bankru... by umanwizard on Tuesday September 04, 2018 @12:36PM (#17910338)

It is dramatically harder to meet someone on OkCupid or Tinder than it is in real life, unless you're either (1) a woman, or (2) a significantly more attractive than average man.

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