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huh? there’s plenty of colleges to choose from and yet costs go up every year. to me it seems like a distortion caused by a Federal Gov that guarantees payment to universities in the form of federally backed student loans.
Subsidized corn is not rapidly and consistently increasing in price.
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Out of everything on the page, this grabbed my attention too. This seems to have immediate implications for how even experienced professionals train. I'd like to become much better at math than I am now. Should I be putting a lot of effort into working out a one-on-one tutoring partnership?
Why do you think that takes a lot of effort? I suspect it would not be hard to find a tutor at readonable rates. (Speaking as a former home-schooling dad. We used math toturs for 1:1 instruction at various times. )
In Sydney I don't think there'd be that many available, and it would take time to find the right 'fit'. I don't think you can assume that once a reasonable rate is settled that the partnership would be a success.
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...have you considered that things are much nicer there but at great cost to the sections of people they consider "not nice?" Especially in Japan?
Good. A country should foremost look after its own people. Worry about foreigners (gaijin) later.
> Why are certain things getting so much more expensive? > * College textbooks I've always felt that textbook pricing is predatory and should be subject to price gouging laws.
"Why are so many things so much nicer in Switzerland and Japan?" Figuring out why this is without fully attributing it to culture has been of great fascination to me. It really is mindblowing just how _good_ things are in Japan, perhaps they're just highly optimized for tourism? The cleanliness, the service, the great care people place in doing things and in their work is just amazing. Anyone here have more insights…
I've only been to Switzerland once and that was during a When I pay for something with an American credit card in Europe, the machine prints out a receipt for me to sign. I was buying a snack at a store in the Zurich airport and the clerk actually compared the signature on the back of my card to the signature that I scrawled on the receipt. That was the one and only time I've ever had someone do that. I generally don…
And I've been through Zurich. I don't consider it anything special better or worse than going through most major European or American airports. [Oh. I take that back. I had my luggage lost on the way there by SwissAir and it was a nightmare finding who to talk to.]
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...have you considered that things are much nicer there but at great cost to the sections of people they consider "not nice?" Especially in Japan?
Good. A country should foremost look after its own people. Worry about foreigners (gaijin) later.
For example, Korean or Chinese heritage Japanese, or Ainu (indigenous Japanese)
"Why are so many things so much nicer in Switzerland and Japan?" Figuring out why this is without fully attributing it to culture has been of great fascination to me. It really is mindblowing just how _good_ things are in Japan, perhaps they're just highly optimized for tourism? The cleanliness, the service, the great care people place in doing things and in their work is just amazing. Anyone here have more insights…
Ethno states with shared culture and little internal division due to racial tensions tend to run quite well. See: China, Korea, Norway, Denmark, Czech republic
Oh, you mean like in Xinjiang?
“ Is Bloom's "Two Sigma" phenomenon real? If so, what do we do about it? Educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom found that one-on-one tutoring using mastery learning led to a two sigma(!) improvement in student performance. The results were replicated. " Does anyone know if this also true of learning & development in companies? For example sales training or training
(We've seen a lot of success with this model at CodeDay, n~50,000. It was very exciting when we first tried this as a legitimate educational strategy and saw it work, one of the reasons I decided to work for this nonprofit instead of another startup.)
One common answer for many questions comparing past to present : "More regulations" This is not necessarily a bad thing, but often it is becoming a nightmare of labyrinthine proportions to navigate, which hinders new entrants.
huh? there’s plenty of colleges to choose from and yet costs go up every year. to me it seems like a distortion caused by a Federal Gov that guarantees payment to universities in the form of federally backed student loans.