Lifelong Learning

mentality that learning doesn't happen only in schools

Context: We desire individual Agency and aggregate Progress and Evolution through Intelligence Increase of both individuals and society-as-a-whole. (Goal Of Educating Kids)

Forces:

High School fails to be both intellectually-stimulating and anchored-by-the-Real World
College Education is too expensive to be a good investment for most people
- there is some getting-DayJob value
  - at least some of that value is Signalling (Credentialism) rather than knowledge-value
  - that value seems to be decreasing over time - 2011-04-11-College EducationBubble
  - that value may increasingly only be associated with the high-brand (e.g. Ivy League) places
subsidizing high College Tuition with taxes isn't sustainable at large numbers over a long period
having some Liberal Arts exposure is a good thing, but more than a little is probably wasted on most people
having a chunk of time in a dense community of co-thinkers, away from both parents and personal responsibility, is a good way of Jiggling your brain. One year might be barely enough. Four years at once is probably unnecessary.
- Actually, 1 week can be enough, under the right conditions.
lots of knowledge makes more sense after some Real World exposure (that's applicable to that field). Good MBA programs want entrants to have worked for 2 years after their undergrad time: I'm glad I had worked 4.5 years.
No matter how long you stay in college, you'll need to learn more later. Some of this will be narrow/tactical, some may involve a change in personal World View.
- the latter doesn't necessarily require a huge amount of time/isolation

Solution:

Bill Seitz