Very interesting piece. I like how you it all comes down to the very basic human emotions and motivators. Therefore, it's important to explore the modern mediums for expressing those emotions. It seems that if you really understand human behavior deeply, you would be able to navigate those new mediums more easily, as they are still an extension of the original human core.
Very interesting piece. I like how you it all comes down to the very basic human emotions and motivators. Therefore, it's important to explore the modern mediums for expressing those emotions. It seems that if you really understand human behavior deeply, you would be able to navigate those new mediums more easily, as they are still an extension of the original human core.
Don't forget:
1) To consider how On Deck could be wrong about education. Beware of whistling past the graveyard.
2) One-way functions.
3) Some things don't scale.
Scarcity of seats at prestigious universities isn't just about status, it's also because some things simply don't scale.
Scale: Is being a parent to 11 kids or educator to 11 students benefit from scale? Only to a point.
Content-wise, sure, it scales pretty well.
Relationship-wise and supervision-wise, not so much.
Especially from the viewpoint of the student / child. Lots different being an only child versus 1 of 11
Disclosure: I'm #9 of 11 children of my parents, and a retired educator of doctors.
One way functions: the experience of a teacher/father of 11 is not analogous to being one of 11 children of that father.
"Yeah, teacher/father of 4 vs. 11; what's the difference. It's the same lesson plan/need to be 24x7 on call."
From the student/child's point of view: Sharing a teacher/father with 3 others vs. 10 others is a big difference.
As an educator, especially with certain higher-risk formation contexts, as in medicine: it's damn hard to supervise 3 student doctors, let alone 10.