@sanjeevsanyal However, agreed that college education, in its current form with obsolete coursework and disconnect with the real world is insanely expensive and becoming unaffordable to the common man and needs a complete redesign of the curriculum and methods of teaching.
@sanjeevsanyal Musk is right that Jobs dropped out of college since he didn't want to waste money on education that seemed meaningless to him. Nevertheless, Jobs audited his classes, including a course on calligraphy taught by Robert Palladino, which had a profound influence on Apple products.
@sanjeevsanyal If centers of learning were so important, why would the most successful entrepreneurs drop out of college to start something on their own? It is because their innate creativity gave rise to ideas that might have possibly become obsolete by the time they finished college.
@sanjeevsanyal Derek Muller has summarized this well when he says that learning or education is a social experience. Just because you have all the weights in your room doesn't necessarily mean that you're getting ripped! https://t.co/snzeVhKBRR
@sanjeevsanyal If it were true, colleges wouldn't be in existence today, given plenty of correspondence courses that have existed for 60+ years. Students don't come to college only to be taught, but more importantly, network & connect with like-minded learners & benefit from sharing & competing
@DrPraveenwrites A movie that, unfortunately, revives unnecessary regional and linguistic divisions by revisiting one of the darkest chapters of Tamil Nadu’s history—something that feels irrelevant today—while also exposing how political parties once instigated students toward violence.