Is It 250 Thousand Dollars?

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If you had a harvard mba, 30 years from now, you'll have ten million dollars more than you would hav if you didn't. Some of these programmes are just prestiges because their prestiges. And i think part of it has to do we have this model now that is becoming really cumbersome. We can just see if you've got the skills, yo kow. If you've got a company that needs to hire people who can cod, you can just ask them to code. Ah, we can straight to the skill sets now. There's there's some movement in gogle and amazon and some other places to develop sort of internal degree programmes

Michael Shermer speaks with Chris Edwards about educational reform, his study and teaching of world history, the problems in K–12 education, the zip-code model vs. the seat time model of education and how they result in massively different educational outcomes, how “no child left behind” left children behind, federal vs. state educational systems, cheating scandals and what to do about them, the future of education in a world of free (or nearly free) online learning, comparing the U.S. educational system to other countries. Shermer and Edwards also discuss thought experiments, based on Edwards’ latest book, Thought Experiments: History and Applications for Education.