<story><title>Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants</title><url>https://apnews.com/e97f08eb935989840bda430bb7a32e15</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simmanian</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s easy to engage in a zero sum game of fighting for the &amp;quot;fair&amp;quot; share of the pie, but I believe the fundamental problem is that our education system as it exists today has immense scalability problems: it&amp;#x27;s built upon the idea of creating scarcity around qualifications and putting people against each other. I honestly think we are already headed in the direction of providing a more open education through the internet. COVID has probably accelerated the process.&lt;p&gt;I hope we can find ways to lift each other up rather than bring each other down.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>biophysboy</author><text>This scarcity problem was the issue I had with the free college proposals last year. It basically proposed that we should make everyone professionals. But, this isn&amp;#x27;t possible! For every manager, there are 10 workers. &amp;quot;Working class&amp;quot; jobs are necessary. The solution should not be give everyone an escape from hell, it should be make the jobs less hellish. Better wages, better healthcare, more respect and dignity overall.&lt;p&gt;Saying that everybody should not go to college might at first seem elitist, but I think its elitist to presume that college is the only path, where people demonstrate their &amp;quot;merit&amp;quot;.</text></comment>
<story><title>Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants</title><url>https://apnews.com/e97f08eb935989840bda430bb7a32e15</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>simmanian</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s easy to engage in a zero sum game of fighting for the &amp;quot;fair&amp;quot; share of the pie, but I believe the fundamental problem is that our education system as it exists today has immense scalability problems: it&amp;#x27;s built upon the idea of creating scarcity around qualifications and putting people against each other. I honestly think we are already headed in the direction of providing a more open education through the internet. COVID has probably accelerated the process.&lt;p&gt;I hope we can find ways to lift each other up rather than bring each other down.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ghj</author><text>Online lectures might be able to scale, but communication platforms and social networks cannot.&lt;p&gt;I would say more than half of what you learn is from your peers. People who by design were already filtered to be at a high baseline of competence and are forced to go through the same curriculum in the same timeframe as you.&lt;p&gt;No professor or expert can explain a concept better than someone similar to yourself who recently figured it out. There&amp;#x27;s also an immense amount of camaraderie built from helping each other grow. All of this is lost when you&amp;#x27;re just one of millions watching a video where most of the public discussion is dumb.&lt;p&gt;A little artificial exclusivity isn&amp;#x27;t a bad thing.</text></comment>