I see you’d like to start a new organisation competing with universities, but I don’t see you talking about any of the existing programmes or certifications that compete with universities. Have you looked into any of those? If so, how would your offer be different? And why did you write about your proposed new organisation on the EA Forum—what are you looking for?
I’m not sure what kinds of programmes or certifications you’re thinking of, but as far as I know, if someone wants to learn maths, physics, economics, ML… or just almost any kind of academic subject, universities are literally the only option. There is no middle path between learning things completely on your own and jumping through all the higher education hoops. And even if a person manages to learn some subject up to a graduate level, there is no way to get it recognized.
The reason I posted this here is because I think there is an interesting contradiction in how EAs approach education for themselves (very important) vs at the institutional level (not worth improving). I do think that the goal of improving education should be taken more seriously by EAs. Though I might have underestimated the inferential distance between my understanding of the problems in the education system and that of the average EA.
Writing about my own proposed solutions wasn’t really the main point of posting on the EA Forum. In this post I only mention it in one paragraph.
I see you’d like to start a new organisation competing with universities, but I don’t see you talking about any of the existing programmes or certifications that compete with universities. Have you looked into any of those? If so, how would your offer be different? And why did you write about your proposed new organisation on the EA Forum—what are you looking for?
I’m not sure what kinds of programmes or certifications you’re thinking of, but as far as I know, if someone wants to learn maths, physics, economics, ML… or just almost any kind of academic subject, universities are literally the only option. There is no middle path between learning things completely on your own and jumping through all the higher education hoops. And even if a person manages to learn some subject up to a graduate level, there is no way to get it recognized.
The reason I posted this here is because I think there is an interesting contradiction in how EAs approach education for themselves (very important) vs at the institutional level (not worth improving). I do think that the goal of improving education should be taken more seriously by EAs. Though I might have underestimated the inferential distance between my understanding of the problems in the education system and that of the average EA.
Writing about my own proposed solutions wasn’t really the main point of posting on the EA Forum. In this post I only mention it in one paragraph.
The main reason I crossposted The Best Educational Institutions in the World is because it is also a testimonial of the EA Hotel.