Bill Gates: In Five Years The Best Education Will Come From The Web - 2 views
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Mary Barzee on 27 Oct 10Many 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.
