On: Making universities obsolete

[slowpoke]

>I'm not convinced that academics are better qualified to predict the needs of society regards knowledge and education any more than the free market is.

On the contrary, I'm pretty sure the free market is the last thing qualified for that. It will always be a race to the bottom, and that's not something education should be.

[jiggy2011 → slowpoke]

I'm not sure I follow, a race to the bottom for whom? Students , Universities or Employers?

[slowpoke → jiggy2011]

I'm talking about the "free market", which is a race to the bottom, which I really don't think anyone wants our education to become.