Here we go...privatised-schools-r-us.

KenHolmes · 3 months

It puts the institution and its profits above that of the student.

Under free-market conditions a business of this type would go bust, especially if other consumers had a similar feeling. If the institution is still operating then it must be doing something right.

It is also unequal and elitist.

Its about getting results. Who cares about being equal if the students are getting super good educations. No one is equal in life. Life has never been equal and never will be equal. The key metric to look at is isn't equality, its maximizing the potential of each person.

The private for-profit schools around here (operating in k-12) blow all the public schools out of the water by a large margin.

KenHolmes · 3 months

Making a profit isn't bad as long as there is a free market operating. Likewise, non-profit isn't better if there is a monopoly (ie. our current system). With our current system there is zero incentive to improve. So its no surprise that our current system is a failure. That's what happens when you create a government monopoly. You get lots of inefficiencies and the system is run politically, based on ideology and not what actually works. Just look for yourself we end up fighting over if we should teach evolution or not and if we should teach gay civil rights or not. Politics as usual.

The main thing you want to focus on is for-profit with a competitive free market. When that occurs what you end up getting is INNOVATION. Companies will start to compete with each other. For the parents, they will want to send their kids to the BEST school that gets the best results for THEIR child. The good companies will be rewarded with profit while the other companies will shut down. The end result is a constant incentive to improve.

kissmygrits222 · 3 months

its just to supplement the learning process not to actually replace the classroom.

ravish261 · 3 months

TAKE ALL MY UPVOTES!!!!!!!

scientist541 · 3 months

Glad you said that because I am one of those people actually building a free online university that actually grants degrees.

At the moment its a long ways off, so I am just focusing on building high quality free courses. Eventually I'll issue paper certificates that can be verified on the website as well as degrees.

Most of those courses from MIT, yale etc are just free samples and marketing material for the universities. They will never issue anything that will replace the degrees they sell.

camel_hopper · 3 months

unfortunately.

camel_hopper · 3 months

is it really? or is it a church institution?

camel_hopper · 3 months

Why should the government be legislating marriage at all in first place?

tibsalot · 4 months

Back breaking work turning to make a scrawny guy look pretty muscular.

That's a benefit i suppose lol.

JonnyMohawk · 4 months

Fire up those crack pipes!!! WE GONNA GET FUCKED UP TONIGHT!!!!!!!!!!

PrimeSun · 4 months

5 mins late? Better just skip it.

tibsalot · 4 months

have heard this is one of the worst jobs ever. Low pay, shitty shifts and back breaking work.

MumbleGrumble · 4 months

Gonna release it once I get done with my first course. I don't want to release it early and have people complaining.

randomvisitor3241324 · 4 months

Universities have a monopoly on issuing diplomas. The price will not go down until competition is introduced into the marketplace.

ramankutty · 4 months

yup, exactly. lol.

entropicwhore · 4 months

great. I am sure most of the students will be like, "why, are these people fucken serious about this shit?"

MumbleGrumble · 4 months

Exactly.

MumbleGrumble · 4 months

A free online university.

Actually that's what I am building now. The courses are written by myself, including the books and lecture videos. The courses are 100% free (supported by adsense) and I plan to make money by selling certificates of completion. The ultimate goal is being able to issue my own version of associates, bachelors and masters degrees (that are actually marketable to employers). Mind you, these are high quality courses. They aren't merely a collection of other people's materials or a collection of tutorials/short videos. These courses will be at the same level as a college course. In fact, they will be BETTER than going to a real college. That advantage comes from the fact that I am using state of the art technology to improve the learning process.

I have some other ideas that I am going to implement that will make this business a true game changer, however, I cannot disclose it at the moment.

Right now its 100% funded by myself. I am hoping the first few courses will generate enough advertising revenue that I can actually hire people to work for me.

pulledhammie · 4 months

hmm, makes alot of sense.

ramankutty · 4 months

is definitely true for me. I figured my ideas was so good it would go viral and i'd get millions of visits very fast. Didn't happens. It turns out for most businesses the word spreads slowly and your business will grow slowly.

Your business idea will only spread fast if you have good connections and you can get on good news/blog websites like forbes, msnbc, techcrunch etc.

pulledhammie · 4 months

So how exactly does one get featured on mashable, techcrunch etc? Assuming you have a decent startup.

sandossu · 4 months

100k? That's like making 20k in kansas.

theeddie23 · 4 months

Here is a list of jim al-kalil's television productions:

The Hunt for Higgs, one-hour TV documentary for BBC, January 2012
Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity, three-part TV series for BBC, October 2011
Horizon: Fukishima: Is Nuclear Power Safe?, one-hour TV documentary for BBC Two, September 2011
Harry Hill's TV Burp Series 10, as Paul McCartney singing 'Helter Skelter' (Avalon TV) in 2011
Everything and Nothing, two linked TV documentaries on Cosmology (Everything about astrophysics and the big bang with Nothing about quantum physics and the vacuum) for BBC4, 2011
Genius of Britain, five-part TV series for Channel 4, being shown in May/June 2010, jointly presented by Stephen *Hawking, Richard Dawkins, Robert Winston and David Attenborough
Chemistry: A Volatile History, three-part TV series for BBC Science Unit on the history of chemistry, shown on BBC TV in the UK, January 2010
The Secret Life of Chaos, one-hour TV documentary for BBC Four, shown on 14 January 2010
Science and Islam, three-part series TV for BBC (Oxford Scientific Films), 2009
Lost Horizons: The Big Bang, one-hour TV documentary for BBC Science Unit, 2008
Atom, three-part TV series for BBC (Oxford Scientific Films), 2007. Al-Khalili also wrote the foreword for the companion book Atom by Piers Bizony (ISBN 1840468009).
The Riddle of Einstein’s Brain, one-hour TV documentary for Channel 4 (Icon Films) in 2004

You're welcome! The bolded films are my recommendations.

okneil · 4 months

redditbox.com is taken but redditupload.com is still available.

randomvisitor3241324

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