Mason  🏃‍♂️ ✂️

You take the ones who want a job, I'll take the ones who don't If you give me $200k & 4 years of your life I'm pretty sure I can figure out how to well-round youhttps://twitter.com/Austen/status/1075888130450894849 …

Indeed, I wonder if there’s enough people who do want to get rounded and would pay to do so if it were as much more efficient than a liberal arts college as @lambdaschool is than a stem degree. May be an opportunity to do good there

This is an excellent take! While I decry the gross inefficiency of the U.S. college system and strongly support alternatives, I also don't like @AustenAllred's criticism that the system isn't sufficiently job-oriented.

I think there are multiple legitimate purposes of education, and the ridiculous expense and inefficiency of the system (a relatively recent phenomenon linked to federal aid money) is orthogonal to those purposes.

I think the higher education system in the US is sold as an institution of both career preparation and personal development, that the evidence suggests that it does a poor job of both, and that both are in high demand, for very good reasons.

Yes, exactly. And not only do we need new alternatives, we need *distinct* alternatives for pursuing these distinct goals.