People should stop caring about Harvard as a pedigree. It's demonstrably irrelevant to the merit of a hire, and serves primarily as a proof of wealth, status, or social connections.
Harvard and other ivy league institutions are anachronisms that do far more social harm than good, by any reasonable metric you might want to pick.
We've had more than enough lawyers and elitist insiders and arbitrary wackjob ideologies being pushed through the network effects enabled by these institutions. They shouldn't be important to us, and shouldn't have social levers to impose nonsense on the rest of the world far beyond the actual technical and rational merit of their ideas.
Stop acting as if these institutions confer some sort of excellence in quality of education - they're a club for rich people to stamp their offspring with a particular pedigree in order to rationalize nepotism and corruption. Any benefit conveyed to society at large has long since been worn out.
Competence kabuki is cute when kids are playing house. It's not so cute when the two digit IQ offspring of political and financial elites are playing at business and public service.
Fix the education system so that institutions aren't extracting wealth from people, so that the politics of teachers is irrelevant so long as they teach people to think and reason competently. Get rid of the incentives that promote the perception of superiority and excellence in elitist institutions and impose a system that allows individuals to acquire the accreditation and certification justified by their own knowledge, competence, and skillset.
We live in the age of the internet. We have more information about most subjects than any one person could hope to master in a lifetime. Let's open up the floodgates and make expertise easier to certify and validate, and get rid of antiquated and unnecessary institutions that are no longer able to fulfill their social purpose - educating and improving society.
Harvard and other ivy league institutions are anachronisms that do far more social harm than good, by any reasonable metric you might want to pick.
We've had more than enough lawyers and elitist insiders and arbitrary wackjob ideologies being pushed through the network effects enabled by these institutions. They shouldn't be important to us, and shouldn't have social levers to impose nonsense on the rest of the world far beyond the actual technical and rational merit of their ideas.
Stop acting as if these institutions confer some sort of excellence in quality of education - they're a club for rich people to stamp their offspring with a particular pedigree in order to rationalize nepotism and corruption. Any benefit conveyed to society at large has long since been worn out.
Competence kabuki is cute when kids are playing house. It's not so cute when the two digit IQ offspring of political and financial elites are playing at business and public service.
Fix the education system so that institutions aren't extracting wealth from people, so that the politics of teachers is irrelevant so long as they teach people to think and reason competently. Get rid of the incentives that promote the perception of superiority and excellence in elitist institutions and impose a system that allows individuals to acquire the accreditation and certification justified by their own knowledge, competence, and skillset.
We live in the age of the internet. We have more information about most subjects than any one person could hope to master in a lifetime. Let's open up the floodgates and make expertise easier to certify and validate, and get rid of antiquated and unnecessary institutions that are no longer able to fulfill their social purpose - educating and improving society.
Surely we can do better.