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This University Teaches You No Skills–Just a New Way to Think – The Minerva Project
Ben Nelson says the primary purpose of a university isn’t to prepare students for a career. It’s to prepare them for life. And he now has $70 million to prove his point.
Nelson is the founder and CEO of a new experiment in higher education called Minerva Project http://www.minervaproject.com/ . He says when it comes to learning, job training is the easy part. With the emergence of online courses, it’s easier and cheaper than ever to acquire the hard skills you need to land a job. "Why would you spend a quarter of a million dollars and four years to learn to code in Python?" he says. "If that’s the role of universities, you’d have to be insane to go to universities."
By Issie Lapowsky
Full Story: http://www.wired.com/2014/10/minerva-project/
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