Show HN: Make School – College replacement for founders and developers
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Re: Show HN: Make School – College replacement for founders and developers
#2Sounds like a good program, at least from your marketing. But I would market is an alternative to college, not a replacement. It is a just a matter of word choice, but the word replacement could take you down a road of comparison that isn't required and may distract your efforts. "Alternative" lets you focus on what you offer, and the value it will bring to a student's life, without getting caught into the mess of arguing about the value of higher education.
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#3So what you're saying is we've found a way to fund education without debt to students or taxes, and the school has an incentive to get you internships so that you graduate with work experience AND incentive to place you at the highest paying job after college?
Consider my interest piqued.
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#4I'm confused. College is amazing. Why would you want a college replacement?
>Your education will be focused on building apps and websites that improve the lives of those around you.
Getting a wide-ranging liberal education was never really that important, huh?
Re: Show HN: Make School – College replacement for founders and developers
#5I'm confused. College is amazing. Why would you want a college replacement? >Your education will be focused on building apps and websites that improve the lives of those around you. Getting a wide-ranging liberal education was never really that important, huh?
> Getting a wide-ranging liberal education was never really that important, huh?
It's important, but it's also expensive. Unbelievably so. What I see happening is ambitious kids going here to gain marketable skills, and figure out what they like doing, and then using those skills to pay their way through college with a much better idea of what they want to do. That way you don't have to be saddled with a crapload of debt.
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#6I'm confused. College is amazing. Why would you want a college replacement? >Your education will be focused on building apps and websites that improve the lives of those around you. Getting a wide-ranging liberal education was never really that important, huh?
No, a wide-ranging formal liberal education is not that important. We're in an era of specialization and autodidactism. I've learned far, far more myself with the internet than I ever did in my useless, overpriced English and History classes in university.
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#7I'm confused. College is amazing. Why would you want a college replacement? >Your education will be focused on building apps and websites that improve the lives of those around you. Getting a wide-ranging liberal education was never really that important, huh?
> Getting a wide-ranging liberal education was never really that important, huh?
I haven't heard of many people who have gotten that where I live. So maybe it isn't.
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#8I really like the innovative funding model, although intuitively it seems pretty high risk?
Re: Show HN: Make School – College replacement for founders and developers
#9I'm confused. College is amazing. Why would you want a college replacement? >Your education will be focused on building apps and websites that improve the lives of those around you. Getting a wide-ranging liberal education was never really that important, huh?
> Getting a wide-ranging liberal education was never really that important, huh? It's important, but it's also expensive. Unbelievably so. What I see happening is ambitious kids going here to gain marketable skills, and figure out what they like doing, and then using those skills to pay their way through college with a much better idea of what they want to do. That way you don't have to be saddled with a crapload of…
25% of your salary for 2 years is not a crapload of debt?
Re: Show HN: Make School – College replacement for founders and developers
#10I'm confused. College is amazing. Why would you want a college replacement? >Your education will be focused on building apps and websites that improve the lives of those around you. Getting a wide-ranging liberal education was never really that important, huh?
College student here, and college has not been so amazing. I wish that the whole e-learning/computer science oriented college alternatives thing took off when I was still in high school. My tuition amounts to ~$30k a year (without grants), which is pretty ridiculous - especially considering the "quality" of the classes. Granted, the social life is nice, but it's hard to maintain that social life when I'm busy making up what school should be teaching me (namely undertaking a bunch of side projects).
Maybe I'm just an angsty young adult, but I am really unhappy with the higher education model in the modern world.