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