Compulsory Education and MIT Open
Guys,
I 've spend every living moment of the past 2 months studying for the GMAT. Just to keep my options open about the path of my career. I will be taking it around mid-late January. The prospect o more schooling enamors me. I guess the classroom is the one true platform where I have been able to outshine my peers and distinguish myself.
I've recently came across two books. As you know, I love books and talking about them. For those that don't know what compulsory education is; it is essentially the required schooling through our formative years.
"Dumbing us down: The true history of compulsory schooling" http://www.Amazon.com/Dumbing-Down-Curriculum-Com…
"Weapons of mass instruction:A schoolteachers journey through the dark world of compulsory schooling" http://www.Amazon.com/Weapons-Mass-Instruction-Sc…
Both of these books were written by John Taylor Gatto, who was a schoolteacher in NYC I believe. They just describe our educational system and how it cripples imagination, discourages critical thinking, and creatse a false view of learning as a byproduct of rote-memorization drills. Pretty spot on if you ask me. I know there was a post on cheating in school and resume etching and it got me thinking about what the value of compulsory schooling is. Also, and I didn't know this, but MIT's whole curriculum is available online. Just type in MIT open, and you can become a student of MIT along with tests, reviews, notes, and slides. It's all free. This excites me! This is valuable information and I was reluctant to release such a jewel to the public, although it may already be public knowledge that I am just late on.
Any thoughts?
Nice!
cool story bro
MIT OCW is pretty cool but not all the courses have the video lectures. The whole OCW initiative is awesome. Here's the list of participating schools:
http://www.ocwconsortium.org/courses/browsesource
The Financial Markets course taught by Robert Shiller is awesome. Some pretty amazing guest lecturers like Carl Icahn, Stephen Schwarzman, and Larry Summers:
http://oyc.yale.edu/economics/financial-markets/content/sessions.html
Woah. I had no idea about the OCW initiatives. Interesting to see how our comparable finance course stacked up to the Markets one at Yale. I'm always surprised how few Yalies seem to make it into finance compared to Harvard and Princeton, even the lower-tier Ivies, given the coursework and advantages afforded them.
I'd say it's mostly due to the fact that Yalies are not looking for jobs in banking as much as its peers and not that they're any less qualified. It's usually considered to be the most liberal of the three.
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