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Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 4:45

What does education reform look like today?

It's like this weird voodoo ritual where this guy comes with the staff dressed in this weird attire and gives us huge speech. It was almost that. Except it was just far too lot more acceptable. And the whole society has come to accept of these guys as like the Inn club to be in again. By no way do I want to belittle all the hard work of all the students and graduates are graduating

Bloated costs and great like rituals

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Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 4:46

MOOC

So it should be easy to get into classes and see what they're about. And likewise, it should be very easy to drop out and exit them without much consequence so that they're not stuck with the wrong subject. The last thing you want is someone stuck in the wrong class for the wrong reasons. Final Point The social aspect of it. People always complain about the social aspect of online classes. Actually, I have had a much more richer interaction in some of my MOOCs courses
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Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 2:28
So in my opinion, these two answers, which is like trying to make education a lot more cost effective and accessible via MOOCs and encourage and build up a lot more hands on projects. We'll definitely go a long way in having education help people equally all throughout and rise up
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Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 2:22
So we have these twelve grades of schooling we go through and what we are taught in each grade, the syllabus, the curriculum, and then the four years of undergrad, and then potentially another couple of years of Masters and a PhD. And whatnot I mean, it's a very well thought through system of education, but it was also a system of education that's a few hundred years old and things have evolved
@Vikas
Vikas Gupta
@Vikas · 3:15
Hi Shammi, this is an interesting conversation that you started something that has been fairly dear to my heart over the last several years, especially as since I've had kids, I would say more than before. I don't know if I can have an answer to your question per se. But there are a few things that I did want to make sure bring to the conversation when it comes to education reform. The first topic is of equity
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Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 0:43
When you have to go to work and you cannot afford care for your children, it is a school that you count on for that care, and most people can't afford to not send their children to school for the sake of food and for the sake of care. So I would like to also add those as things to consider when we talk about equity in education
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Vikas Gupta
@Vikas · 1:53
Continuing the conversation on College educational reform or changes to education. I highly recommend reading this book called Class Clowns E-L-O-W-N Clowns. This book talks about several people who have tried to innovate in the education space or reform education in the US in many different ways. Some people have tried to do it multiple times and talks about their thesis on what they tried to do, why it succeeded, why it failed. The reason I found this book highly enlightening is that it gave me an insight into this sense of hubris
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Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 4:45
But these are people that are definitely not very well off. And that's one of the things that got me really thinking is that, wow, there are so many people in India getting a really good quality education from the University of Stanford or from really top notch US universities. It's the same curriculum, and they are there like taking it, learning it. And all they have is just an Internet connection and a device and I don't know
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Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 1:19

https://youtu.be/YytF2v7Vvw0

I guess I tend to ramble on a bit and don't make very good effective use of my five minutes. And I also forgot to add this point in my previous conversation. I happen to see Hasan Minaj's latest Patriot Act episode, and he touches on our College is worth it. And when I put up my post over here, it's exactly what he's talking about
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Vikas Gupta
@Vikas · 4:51
Hi Shammi. I thought I'll respond to a couple of things that you got up, I think which are an excellent point when it comes to College education. You refer to the episode by Hassan Minaj. I think he makes really good of points about colleges. I think when you're thinking about College education reform or education reform more broadly, I think it's important to articulate the problems that a reform would solve
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Vikas Gupta
@Vikas · 4:06
So I think it becomes economically infeasible for these colleges to make themselves available online to students at a much lower cost. So I expect that a lot of that education that happens in these colleges, where they're also striving to keep the quality of education high so that they do continue to serve their core purpose of providing that social, affordable mobility to people
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Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 5:00
And that is the problem I really have with education, and that is the angle from which I'm coming. Bark for education reform. I hope that kind of makes where I'm coming
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