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Honestly I do not think we will have schools then. I mean once we merge with the technology and can "download" any information we need it will make school's useless.
what makes you think that there will BE any schools, US, etc in 40 years, hmm? with the population doubled, mass wars, pandemics, resources all used up?
what makes you think that there will BE any schools, US, etc in 40 years, hmm? with the population doubled, mass wars, pandemics, resources all used up?
Actually we are entering the age of abundance so while I agree we will not have schools it will not be for the reasons you list but because once we merge with the technology we will no longer need them.
lets wonder what school will be like in the year of 2055,will robots be the teachers?
I do expect major reforms between now and then. Right now there is out-of-control obsession over grades and tests and not on learning, "boots on the ground" knowledge, "life wisdom", etc.
At some point there must be a turnaround to again putting an emphasis on learning and skills, not being standardized-tested to death and wasting educators' time grading instead of actually providing quality knowledge transmissible from one generation to the next.
Also, more of a balance between teaching students how to think and teaching them what to think should be sought.
The biggest wild card is whether public policymakers will do anything serious to address the school system's contribution to income inequality by deriving its funding from local sources (property tax), which, when combined with segregation of neighborhoods, lack of education vouchers, and class warfare, mean that families of lower means can't even afford a good public education as they are property tax'd out. Thus making their kids less likely to launch a decent career, and in turn perpetuating economic inequality from one generation to the next.
Actually we are entering the age of abundance so while I agree we will not have schools it will not be for the reasons you list but because once we merge with the technology we will no longer need them.
Kurzweil said the same thing before the dot-com and housing bubbles burst, that the economy would continue to improve.
Probably actual physical school will be a thing of the past as any education required will simply be downloaded to your brain by some implanted computer to human brain interface.
Probably the same as it is now --- high school teachers and college professors making $80K-$150K per year while doing a crappy job because they made tenure and can't be fired.
I have very slim hopes that America will finally wake up from this sick delusion that forcing 18 yr. old kids to sign their life away on $250,000+ of student loan debt simply because of some paranoid idea that employers won't hire them without a college diploma. All that money is being used to fund professors' salaries so they can work a tough schedule of 2 classes per week, or some university adminstrator to take a paid vacation to the Bahamas in order to schmooze some alumni for even more money. Most secretaries working in a typical university office makes at least $50,000 per year with full 401K retirement fund, a month of paid vacation, and 3 months off for maternity leave. We could hire illegal Mexican workers to do the same job for 1/10th the price! I remember asking my dept. secretary to send out my resume to potential employers and she screwed it up so bad I almost felt like suing my college over it.
With the power of the Internet --- I don't see any reason why colleges need to exist anymore. Just pick a handful of really great professors and put them in a room with a camera and high-speed Internet connection and that way 5 million students can log in to the lecture and learn from the FREE comfort of their parents' house. Why spend $50,000 a year so these same students have to sit in a brand new classroom building that cost $10 million to construct to hear the exact same lecture? Please --- ANYONE --- tell me how this makes economic sense ??
Higher education is the biggest scam going in the USA. The mafia could only dream of such a profitable racket like this.
Probably the same as it is now --- high school teachers and college professors making $80K-$150K per year while doing a crappy job because they made tenure and can't be fired.
I have very slim hopes that America will finally wake up from this sick delusion that forcing 18 yr. old kids to sign their life away on $250,000+ of student loan debt simply because of some paranoid idea that employers won't hire them without a college diploma. All that money is being used to fund professors' salaries so they can work a tough schedule of 2 classes per week, or some university adminstrator to take a paid vacation to the Bahamas in order to schmooze some alumni for even more money. Most secretaries working in a typical university office makes at least $50,000 per year with full 401K retirement fund, a month of paid vacation, and 3 months off for maternity leave. We could hire illegal Mexican workers to do the same job for 1/10th the price! I remember asking my dept. secretary to send out my resume to potential employers and she screwed it up so bad I almost felt like suing my college over it.
With the power of the Internet --- I don't see any reason why colleges need to exist anymore. Just pick a handful of really great professors and put them in a room with a camera and high-speed Internet connection and that way 5 million students can log in to the lecture and learn from the FREE comfort of their parents' house. Why spend $50,000 a year so these same students have to sit in a brand new classroom building that cost $10 million to construct to hear the exact same lecture? Please --- ANYONE --- tell me how this makes economic sense ??
Higher education is the biggest scam going in the USA. The mafia could only dream of such a profitable racket like this.
The higher education system got the world to where it is today. The thing is with new technologies we will not need it much longer. That happens its either good or bad but how society changes as technology advances.
at the cost of education and the poorer results I suspect much different and likely less pubic numbers ever increasing. Most are going to do what they have to do to advance their child's education as we have seen in last decade or two. My guess is that the local school district is the number one consideration of parents when they buy a home.
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