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Ben Nelson on the future of higher education

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The Importance of Applied Learning

Acquiring some piece of knowledge isn't the end of education, it's the beginning. Real education is now that you know something, what do you do with it? How broadly can you apply it to a new situation? And so the education system not only doesn't have a way to measure that, it doesn't even acknowledge that is the goal of education. So when you create an educational system as Minerva has, that creates that as the only focus of the education, that's why you get better outcomes. Yeah. Because you actually train people to be wise, to be able to apply what they've learned in whatever situation they encounter.

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