In this episode, Jason poses the question - "Is modern college really just trade school?" and explores the various reasons why it, in fact, approaches trade school, moving perhaps as close to the old European model of the majority get job training; a few get education. Jason then discusses take-aways of a fascinating paper from 2018 that puts tuition, major and school choice, and student debt together to yield a working plan of advice, and sketches a vision of what education should be like, and how to get it today, and what has been lost if students only look to school for job training.

Some interesting links mentioned in the talk:

Is college worth it? By Douglas Webber, Ph.D.

Jacob wrestles the Angel, A Leloir

Plato's Republic, Book VII

UCSB's College of Creative Studies

CSU Stanislaus Honor's Program

In this inaugural episode, meet Jason and the discussion about Tech in the classroom since 2013 and the onslaught of AI to come.., and Jason's heretofore unheard-of responses, and the utter lack of theory that tech titans are trying to use to strong-arm yet-more tech into an already beleaguered classroom. What do YOU think? Please let me know...