College is dying.
I’m not referring to the institutions — those will probably survive for a few more decades.
I’m referring to the paradigm.
A paradigm where in order to acquire education you have to:
- Select a single field of study.
- Part with mobility and optionality + tens of thousands of dollars.
- Commit to a 4-year investment while having little clue how your chosen field works in the real world.
- Have a central planner dictate what’s worth learning within your field.
- Have teachers assigned to you with little room for choice.
- Focus on the theoretical over the practical, memorization over problem-solving.
- Learn from people without skin in the game.
- Rely on a document provided by an institution to prove that you learned something.