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Comment author: [deleted] 03 January 2015 12:18:30AM 2 points [-]

One issue with the chain of logic: The value proposition of school is NOT the lectures. It's other things:

  1. Good teachers who can individualize instruction (software cannot do this yet, even state of the art like Knewton is rudimentary compared to a good teacher)
  2. Signaling (Everyone knows that if you learned at harvard you've already been preselected, nobody knows this about random person watching a video online)

I agree in large part with what you said, but the two issues above need to be solved.

Comment author: adamzerner 03 January 2015 12:34:40AM 0 points [-]

I agree that other things like personalized attention and signaling matter. But I think the lessons and lectures do matter a lot (enough to be talked about anyway). And I think that getting into that other stuff now would be going down a deep enough rabbit hole such that it'd be unproductive for this conversation.

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