An interesting Twitter thread about the future of education from David Perell. I agree with a lot of points but the college system is incomplete, not completely irrelevant. It opens space for a new flavor of learning modality, but my guess is the rumors of the death of college are exagerrated. Some key points from the thread:
- Teaching will become an extremely lucrative profession, and salaries will follow a power law.
- Mass market courses will have Hollywood-level production budgets.
- Subjects will cross-pollinate, and students will become more polymathic.
- Education will be cheap, once credentials are out of the hands of just colleges.
- Community learning will make a comeback - creating groups of self motivated learners.
- Students will become producers - they’ll learn by creating, building and doing things.
- School will escape the classroom.
- The future of education looks like Y-Combinator, with respected industry credentials, supporting peers, learning by doing, and top talent.
- Students evaluations will become as meaningful teacher evaluations.
- Online education will invert the learning process, starting with curiousity and moving towards the basics of specifics subjects.
- The best teachers will be practitioners - the industry experts themselves.