Tune in for Scott’s usual thoughtful critiques of higher education and listen for Stig’s analysis of how we got here and how we solve it. Here are some of Stig’s thoughts from the episode.
All the outside observers of higher ed have to sort of get over the mythology that the talent is in a small number of branded selective colleges. That is mathematically impossible.
The only hope inside of higher ed is to introduce innovation.
We’ve got to end all forms of the nonsense that there’s some kind of strong discontinuity between a kid in a two-year college and a kid at Stanford. I don’t buy it, I can’t live like that, I genuinely don’t believe it.
