Many comments (185) - pro and con
http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/06/bill-gates-education/
* college needs to be less "place-based,"
* overall point is that it's just too expensive and too hard to get these upper-level educations.
* soon place-based college educations will be five times less important than they are today.
* no matter how you came about your knowledge, you should get credit for it.
* textbooks are too long... even in grade school some are 300 pages.
* our text books are three times longer than the equivalents in Asia.
This lecture is used in a course on HIV at the School of Nursing
online lecture by Elizabeth Pisani, a British epidemiologist who wrote the book The Wisdom of Whores: Bureaucrats, Brothels, and the Business of AIDS. She is a great speaker, and the folks in my HIV class loved it. She talks about the first needle exchange program in the world, which was--get this--started by Margaret Thatcher