Sophisticated education is still needed for some of us. I did a Ph.D. in Engineering, one brother did Medicine, another a Ph.D. in Botany (and works in it), I have a daughter who is a structural engineer and a son who is a technical program manager. Conceivably he could have learned what he needed on the job - but the employment workspac…
Sophisticated education is still needed for some of us. I did a Ph.D. in Engineering, one brother did Medicine, another a Ph.D. in Botany (and works in it), I have a daughter who is a structural engineer and a son who is a technical program manager. Conceivably he could have learned what he needed on the job - but the employment workspace is too unstable and companies are no longer willing to train people - unlike 50 years ago. The only realistic alternative is a sophisticated testing / certification authority - and even that is not going to deal well with the requirements for extensive and consecutive course work mastery that is needed in many of the tech fields. It is not clear to me that many autodidacts can self power through all the prerequisites - and I was notorious in grad school for taking courses without the prerequisites.
Sophisticated education is still needed for some of us. I did a Ph.D. in Engineering, one brother did Medicine, another a Ph.D. in Botany (and works in it), I have a daughter who is a structural engineer and a son who is a technical program manager. Conceivably he could have learned what he needed on the job - but the employment workspace is too unstable and companies are no longer willing to train people - unlike 50 years ago. The only realistic alternative is a sophisticated testing / certification authority - and even that is not going to deal well with the requirements for extensive and consecutive course work mastery that is needed in many of the tech fields. It is not clear to me that many autodidacts can self power through all the prerequisites - and I was notorious in grad school for taking courses without the prerequisites.