How Important Will University Education Be in 20 Years?
Despite a handful of university degrees I consider myself mostly self educated. I still enjoy living near and hanging out on campuses, lurking in libraries, hacking my own experiments and binging on obscure journals online.
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I did learn things in college, especially while I was in law school. Much of that wasn't classroom learning. The university associations I've been lucky enough to have granted access to resources that were rare and expensive at the time. It may be that is the main role of institutional higher learning.
But education ― access to knowledge and skills, in particular ― is changing rapidly. Information has never been as accessible as it is today. Can one now teach oneself all the skills one needs to know. Or will it be so soon?
How Important Will University Education Be in 20 Years?
- Much less important than it is today
- Somewhat less important than it is today
- About as important as it is today
- Somewhat more important than it is today
- Much more important than it is today
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In my country, sararies of master level graded workforce are more than double than salaries with a high-school degree. And the gap is increasing.
Robots are coming, robots are among us. They can tke the simple jobs, but not the jobs of creative, intelligent people. I think university degree will be more important, and all sort of high quality knowledge. Also self education.
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It feels to me that higher education, while it can be a bit painstaking to afford, plays a significant role in the proliferation of workforce and opportunity creation moving forward. That may be because I myself am a student, yet it feels significant. Qualifications remain important, almost timelessly.
Thanks for answering. I have always found education rewarding on a deeply personal level. But the emphasis between workforce and education troubles me. I think capability is the most important ― the only real ― qualification. Education is one way to pursue capability. But it is not exclusive. And not certain.
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Much less important. The actual learning will always be important, but the real reason we go to university now a days (compared to when universities were created 100s of years ago) is so we can have a diploma with which we conform into a group of people, who can contribute x to society. However, the way the internet is allowing for decentralization, the less we need to conform, and this will probably allow for more room to contribute without needing a diploma to prove our 'worth'.
I agree with much of that. I worked, for a time, in higher education. The modern university is by far a different creature than the one of centuries ago.
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