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Bill Gates: Who Needs a College Education When You Have the Web?
Daily Tech ^ | August 9, 2010 | Jason Mick

Posted on 08/09/2010 12:41:02 PM PDT by decimon

Famous college dropout predicts that college degrees will become less and less useful

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Gates calls college education "increasingly hard to get" and says that "place-based" traditional college studies will be "five times less important than it is today."

He argues, "The self-motivated learner will be on the web. And there will be far less place-based [college] things...College -- except for the parties -- needs to be less place based."

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1 posted on 08/09/2010 12:41:06 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

Gates? Don’t make me laugh! This is the same idiot that said that some day computers would cost less than $1,000.

How can you take anything a guy like that says about future trends seriously?


2 posted on 08/09/2010 12:45:54 PM PDT by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: decimon

Given the cost, irrelevance of many college degrees, and level of knee-jerk indoctrination going on at colleges, I also see the higher education bubble bursting soon as well.

I think it will be worst for middling, private (and expensive) smaller schools in the Northeast.


3 posted on 08/09/2010 12:46:13 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: decimon

It is amazing what you can learn with the ability to read, quickly access information and have the opportunity to gain experience. I’m no fan of Bill Gates with his greed and misuse of government, but I agree with him here.


4 posted on 08/09/2010 12:47:36 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: decimon

No need for engineers, doctors, biologists, chemists?

The man is a tool, a fool, and a moron.


5 posted on 08/09/2010 12:47:58 PM PDT by Carley (For those who fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
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To: decimon

I make ample use of Office Commuincator in telephone conferences. I share a Visio document as my screen. Sometimes it is BETTER than a white board.

The new trend is to go to 50” computer monitors. It changes the whole experience - especially with HD webCams. People not only have no idea how computers will change education, but how we perceive online based communication of all sorts.

Wait’ll OLED goes mainline. It will change the world in this area.

And Bill is absolutely right about self motivated learners. Universities are already a dying paradigm. And with the economy the way it is, more and more people will be shocked how well many people will do without the shingle, and how poorly many WITH a shingle are doing.


6 posted on 08/09/2010 12:50:13 PM PDT by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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Universities have become nothing more than affirmative-action factories for transferring wealth from qualified white students to unqualified black students.

College tuition has gone up 500% since 1980. The only reason for that is that the whited kids are expected to take out loans for their educations, the proceeds of which are used to grant "scholarships" to black kids.

The average graduate is saddled with $50,000 of student loans upon graduation, the ONLY class of debt that cannot be escaped by personal bankruptcy.

This will enable the federal government to turn people with outstanding student loans into indentured slaves.

And most of them will be white.

7 posted on 08/09/2010 12:50:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The man who speaks to you of sacrifice, speaks of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.)
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To: decimon

American College of Metaphysical Theologyhttp://www.americancollege.com/Media/AmColl.htm

LOLZ


8 posted on 08/09/2010 12:51:36 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (No. Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try. ~Master Yoda)
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given that most education these days is commie dribble, I learned most everything from online, source books (instead of just interpretation thereof prescribed by commie faculty), life and work experience, and generally gifts from God. School? Sure I learned a few things here and there, but it can all really add up (even though I do have my Master’s degree) to one year of hard core learning. That’s it. If we had REAL teachers doing REAL teaching maybe it would be worth while. As is trade schools are far better that incorporate on the job learning and transition.


9 posted on 08/09/2010 12:52:17 PM PDT by GOP Poet (Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
let's not forget universities are also jobs/paychecks for a bunch of commie, radical, dependent, whiner babies that couldn't make it in the real work world.
10 posted on 08/09/2010 12:55:01 PM PDT by GOP Poet (Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
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To: Carley

You can watch videos of MIT lectures on those subjects free online.


11 posted on 08/09/2010 12:55:01 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Vigilanteman
It is amazing what you can learn with the ability to read, quickly access information and have the opportunity to gain experience.

I've learned more since the www took off than I learned in high school and college combined.

And a good amount of that was from reading posts here on FR (and then further researching on my own)

I'm an amateur mechanic, and the amount of information on just the subject of cars and vehicle maintenance that is available compared to when I was in HS (early/mid 80s), is just breathtaking.

Of course, there's also a lot of crap and mis/dis-information out there.
12 posted on 08/09/2010 12:57:15 PM PDT by chrisser (Starve the Monkeys!)
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To: decimon

a good place to start: http://ocw.mit.edu


13 posted on 08/09/2010 1:00:23 PM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
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To: chrisser

Remember how hard it was to find information 18 years ago?

On candidates, the bias of news sources, employment, anything that you buy or rent. Man it was a nightmare. I can’t believe we survived


14 posted on 08/09/2010 1:02:54 PM PDT by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
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To: 9YearLurker

No doubt we can send the shuttle up with people who learned all about it online.

Next time someone needs brain surgery we’ll have an online degreed doc perform.


15 posted on 08/09/2010 1:04:14 PM PDT by Carley (For those who fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know.)
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To: decimon

I earned more obtaining my class A CDL then I’ll ever earn from that POS BA degree I was conned into getting by parents and teachers claiming that a college degree is the pathway to success.

College is total BS.....it’s not what you know but who you blow that determines success, whether in sales or any other industry.


16 posted on 08/09/2010 1:04:28 PM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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To: chrisser

I was bailing hay on my new property in Kentucky with the help of a neighbor. Well, the danged bailer kept snapping the sheer bolt. I did a google search and went online to a site called “hay talk” where the problem was discussed ad nausium, along with many solutions based on your particular model and make of bailer.

The Web has changed the world MORE than the printing press. And even more so, the rate at which the world changes. That one will bite us. IS biting us.


17 posted on 08/09/2010 1:04:44 PM PDT by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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To: RobRoy
It's a novel thought, but even Bill understands that knowledge must be tested and certified.

18 posted on 08/09/2010 1:05:17 PM PDT by TSgt (We will always be prepared, so we may always be free. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: decimon

Self motivated learner? Gates has obviously not talked to many “real” college students.


19 posted on 08/09/2010 1:06:24 PM PDT by rbg81 (When you see Obama, shout: "DO YOUR JOB!!")
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To: Carley

>>Next time someone needs brain surgery we’ll have an online degreed doc perform.<<

Actually, although we are not quite there yet, we probably will be in pretty short order. And their qualifications and quality of work will be high.

Heck, relatively soon they’ll be able to control robotic surgical tools from across the country.


20 posted on 08/09/2010 1:07:07 PM PDT by RobRoy (The US Today: Revelation 18:4)
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