Request for Education Startups
Naval Ravikant&#x27;s tweetstorm today is highly relevant to this [1]:<p>1&#x2F; If the primary purpose of school was education, the Internet should obsolete it. But school is mainly about credentialing.<p>2&#x2F; Schools survive anti-educational behavior (i.e. groupthink) due to symbiosis between institutions that issue and accept credentials.<p>3&#x2F; Employers looking past traditional credentials can arbitrage the gap. @ycombinator made $Bs doing this for young founders.<p>4&#x2F; The more meritocratic an industry, the faster it moves away from false credentialing. I.e., the MBA and tech startups.<p>5&#x2F; A generation of auto-didacts, educated by the Internet &amp; leveraged by technology, will eventually starve the industrial-education system.<p>6&#x2F; Until then, only the most desperate and talented students will make the leap.<p>7&#x2F; Even today, what to study and how to study it are more important than where to study it and for how long.<p>8&#x2F; The best teachers are on the Internet. The best books are on the Internet. The best peers are on the Internet.<p>9&#x2F; The tools for learning are abundant. It’s the desire to learn that’s scarce.<p>10&#x2F; Educational credentials are badges that admit one to the elite class. Expect elites to struggle mightily to justify the current system.<p>11&#x2F; Eventually, the tide of the Internet and rational, self-interested employers will create and accept efficient credentialing...<p>12&#x2F; ...and wash away our obsolete industrial-education system.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;naval&#x2F;status&#x2F;912220382450524160" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;twitter.com&#x2F;naval&#x2F;status&#x2F;912220382450524160</a>