Bill Gates: In Five Years The Best Education Will Come From The Web
But his overall point is that it’s just too expensive and too hard to get these upper-level educations. And soon place-based college educations will be five times less important than they are today.
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College dropout shares his opinion of university level education. I wonder if it will be as accurate as his infamous former prediction that “640k of memory ought to be enough of everybody”.
Seriously, though, there's a lot of excellent learning material on the web already. A lot of it is of higher quality than one can get from a university. It's also often more adequate to market expectations. But whether students will be able to filter out the fluff and study systematically on their own, are totally different questions.
