Top universities want you to homeschool

Pre 'dismissal' without meaning it?
How the fark is that a virtue?

But I suppose there are advantages to diverse learning in a world where one set of teachers can mark you one grade and another another.. Also if you do not learn proper 'English' you can still actually comprehend it entirely and produce arguments on the day it matters.

It is just there is never any opportunity to require it, 7 billion people started a week before you.

Rip it up!
Skools out!

I agree with some of what she says but she really lost me here:



I think just about any school -- from the top 10 to community college -- can be with the student's time and money if they're pursuing something that interests them.

Yeah, that seems like quite a jump. She jumps from "you gotta have grades and a passion" to "just have a passion" based on one anecdote about someone getting into college with a GED.

Kinda like saying, "Michael Dell dropped out of college, so you don't need a college degree."

Granted my own experience with schools is dated... What I get from reading is that you have a totally regimented system in public schools these days which is driven by standardized tests more than anything else, and it sounds like colleges are increasingly less willing to rely on that system for determining who gets in and who might add anything to the college.

I think you're right. Test scores count for a lot -- from school funding to real estate values in a neighborhood. Colleges are becoming more flexible with admissions but I don't think they've learned how to measure passion so they really have to rely on test scores in determining who will be a successful student.