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CEO @LambdaSchool (YC S17): A CS education that's free until you get a job. I have made remarks that I do not agree with.

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    1. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Mar 9

      7. We had one student on the edge of homelessness, was $400 short on bills and almost had to quit because of that. I personally loaned him the money, and his income moved from $10/hr to $70k+/yr. It only took $400, but he didn’t have anywhere to get that from. Insane.

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    2. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Mar 9

      8. Psychology matters much, much more than people think, and varies wildly based on socioeconomic background. People that don’t know many people that are middle class literally don’t understand what’s possible, and are unable to take the corresponding risks as a result of that.

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    3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Mar 9

      9. 99% of people, when left long blocks of time alone to work on something without anyone to be accountable to, will watch Netflix.

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    4. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Mar 9

      10. Nearly everyone recognizes that MOOCs are by and large a failure with ~2% completion rates, but they make us feel good because now it’s the students’ fault not they’re not learning, not the school’s

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    5. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Mar 9

      11. Tuition at any Ivy League school is pretty much a rounding error no one cares about. Endowments are all that matters.

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    6. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Mar 9

      12. Think for profit universities are bad? They’re worse than you think. Almost no matter how little you think of them they manage to be worse than that

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    7. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Mar 9

      13. There are dozens of careers that are a 100% employment guarantee. There are dozens of careers where <50% get jobs. Everyone knows what those are on a university faculty, but no one does anything about it because universities don’t see it as their role to get you a job

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    8. Jim V.o.R.‏ @JimYoull Mar 10
      Replying to @AustenAllred

      I agree with much of your tweetstorm, but the function of a well-working university is not as a career training center… though every school I’m aware of also offers a good measure of help for students looking for a first (or later) job, too. University is about learning to think

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    9. Jim V.o.R.‏ @JimYoull Mar 10
      Replying to @JimYoull @AustenAllred

      Boot camps are fine if the only missing skill is “coding”. But computer science is also actually a science. Someone who doesn’t study the science as well as the practical skill can’t/shouldn’t move beyond junior or low senior engineer - there’s so much more than code.

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    10. Jim V.o.R.‏ @JimYoull Mar 10
      Replying to @JimYoull @AustenAllred

      So if you want people to actually reach the “upper middle” tiers - they must understand that the coding classes are just the beginning of opening the door to a long education about lots of things not covered in coding classes...

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      Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Mar 10
      Replying to @JimYoull

      That’s why we created a computer science academy, not a bootcamp

      11:34 AM - 10 Mar 2018
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        2. Jim V.o.R.‏ @JimYoull Mar 10
          Replying to @AustenAllred

          Please don’t diss universities - there’s more to life than one’s career - and IMO a big cause of SV’s failure to solve the world’s actual hard problems is the over-emphasis on making code, and so little understanding of the breadth of our humanity.

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        3. Jim V.o.R.‏ @JimYoull Mar 10
          Replying to @JimYoull @AustenAllred

          In the BS programs I attended (Computer Science and Photojournalism majors, simultaneously) I learned to think about the world more fully. I wasn’t just "taught a trade.” That sort of experience - language and culture courses, even phys ed - helped me grow up.

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        4. Jim V.o.R.‏ @JimYoull Mar 10
          Replying to @JimYoull @AustenAllred

          I know many people enrolled in degree programs at state schools and community colleges who know there are shorter paths to “jobs” but who are enriching themselves in many other essential ways - stuff they didn’t get growing up. These are not rich kids btw.

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        5. Jim V.o.R.‏ @JimYoull Mar 10
          Replying to @JimYoull @AustenAllred

          Let’s say you grew up poor and blue collar, one parent who couldn’t always be there, unprivileged area (that’s most of the US btw)… college/university is one giant opportunity to learn how the world really works, cuz nobody back home taught you, because nobody back home knows.

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