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Entreprenuership university?
Seth Godin once offered a program for a few individuals to forego the MBA and instead learn everything they need by working intensively on innovative projects.
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/12/if-you-could-ch.html
What if we did this with undergraduate education?
What if universities picked students based not on SAT scores or high school transcripts, but on evidence of focused passion, past leadership, and a really, really great idea? Introductory classes on writing and rhetoric would no longer elicit eye-rolling or resigned sighs, but urgency because students must create business plans and presentations that argue and convince. Technical courses will not ask students to design fake Carol environments, but offered practicum-based courses such as web design, app creation, and data structure. The sciences will cease to be debates over methodology and statistical significance, but pieces of evidence to bolster or shift the direction of potential projects. Social sciences and economics will help students understand the social and cultural context that they’ll be introducing their products and services into, not to mention help them with the business aspects of their ideas.
After all, isn’t this what a university education is supposed to provide - the ability to find, understand, and utilize resources in the service of a meaningful task?
