While his point is that he was in some degree lucky and gained success by writing one code. Sure that might have not been easy back then, it might have required some intelligence, but it hardly makes him qualified to know much about education.
Adopting the scientific methods to how people become successful.
Just because I might be intelligent I can't quite tell someone how to be intelligent. A scientist might be able to however if he does a lot of studies and is able to derive rules etc.
Besides, he is not serially successful, as in build one company and move on to the next, or successful in business, politics, history, medicine, physics. He just wrote one code. As I say sure it took some wits from him to make the deal and intelligence to write the code, but that in no way makes him qualified to know much about education, which is such an extensive topic.
And yes he was a drop out hence his genius idea of accrediting any knowledge however it was gained. If someone has some knowledge there are other ways to prove it to others than through accreditation. We have I think enough pieces of paper which misleads people as to our ability.
if one needs formal education to have an opinion on education, why are you talking to me? I didn't go to school either.
My point is just that school can't be the only qualifier for knowing about education- unless the point of education is to make people good at school.
>And yes he was a drop out hence his genius idea of accrediting any knowledge however it was gained. If someone has some knowledge there are other ways to prove it to others than through accreditation. We have I think enough pieces of paper which misleads people as to our ability.
I think most people agree that most certifications are garbage. However, most degrees aren't any better, when it comes to accrediting that a person has a particular skill. It's a hard problem that isn't being solved well by anyone right now.
the thing is, a college degree doesn't say anything about the ability of a person to do a particular job, and people in industry recognize this.
But the idea that you could have a certifying agency say that joe is a level 5 unix Engineer is very attractive to companies... a good certification system would make hiring people way easier.
The problem is that certification is one of those things that's easy to do badly and extremely difficult to do well.
