No need for engineers, doctors, biologists, chemists?
The man is a tool, a fool, and a moron.
You can watch videos of MIT lectures on those subjects free online.
While certainly not all of their training can be web-based, a lot of it could be. It could reduce the cost and time considerably.
(By the way, I have a doctorate in one of the more lucrative and highly competitive health professions.)
Be careful what you say about others, often it applies to YOU in far greater measure.
No need for engineers, doctors, biologists, chemists?
“No need for engineers, doctors, biologists, chemists?
The man is a tool, a fool, and a moron.”
What percentage of college degrees are issued in those four fields of study? And of the engineering degrees how many are for software engineering, which can easily be done via distance learning without attending a traditional college.
For that matter, please remind me what degree Mr. Gates holds (other than honorary ones) and how that degree aided him in his career. Also explain to the rest of us how your degree enabled you to do better in your career than he has done in his career. I would be fascinated by that.
Having done that, please explain why you consider him a tool, a fool and a moron. Illustrate your thesis with some concrete examples.
No need for engineers, doctors, biologists, chemists?
Sure, they’ll be needed. It’s the 98% of college graduates that could have been better served by alternatives to college that this is about.
you'd be surprised by how much medicine is on the web. The surgical specialties and the hands on application of knowledge can and is augmented by the internet and computers. Look up Epocrates and Check this out. for emergency medicine.
The man is a tool, a fool, and a moron.
Even with them, how many lecturers (both professors and TAs) do you have in every university across the country. Take the best few, have them develop a unified course of study and create the lectures, "textbooks" (in whatever form they actually take), exercises and laboratory work. About the only thing you lose is some of the back and forth discussion between the lecturer and the students in the classroom, but that generally wouldn't have happened in the big lecture hall classes anyway. You would need some way of proctoring the exams to make sure that the real student took it (no Fat Ted Spanish exams allowed on the web either), and the laboratory classes would be harder to do in a distributed manner. If anything I think the liberal arts classes would be harder to do online because there a thousands of ways of interpeting Shakespeare, but only a limited number of ways to find the derivative of f(x)=x2.
There is obviously plenty of need for all the fields you mention.
However, as someone who has been through an engineering program, I think that students could save a snootful of money by doing their first two years in most BS programs for engineering/science online. Most of the courses in the first two years are the same for all of the eng/science tracks. You willl have 4 semesters of calc, physics and/or chemistry, a couple of science electives and three semesters worth of some language arts or writing classes.
It is only in the junior year where things start to specialize.