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What weird alternative universe is this person tweeting from? Schools don't teach people to think. They just don't. We would all notice if they did. We'd be surrounded by thinkers everywhere. That would be a very different Earth.

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@phildaian

· Jan 10, 2019

People that think @LambdaSchool is a good replacement for higher education fundamentally misunderstand education. We need a lot more than vocational training to power the future. It's a great initiative, but the purpose of school is to teach you to think, not train you for work.

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Andy Matuschak

@andy_matuschak

Jan 11, 2019

Indeed. On this topic, you might enjoy "Building the Intentional University" documenting the approach at Minerva, an interesting new university model which takes that specific goal more seriously. mitpress.mit.edu/books/building

Francesca Pallopides

@FPallopides

Jan 11, 2019

I remember reading about that... but did anything come of it yet?

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They graduate their first undergraduate class in a few months. Some initial assessments show promising growth (included in the book), but of course it's all very preliminary, and I feel selection bias in admissions could still explain the measures published thus far.

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Thanks! Yeah, selection bias is the main reason I'm mostly pessimistic about "let's test this outside the system & then market it to them" attempts. This would call for a proper Follow Through-scale evaluation IMO.