Is the era of the educated elite over? (M.Gove, T.Debbonaire, D.Susskind) [video]

> Jensen Hang had one of the best educations available to anyone in the United States. But he tells the rest of us that our children should become carpenters or electricians or plumbers. Are his children going to be carpenters, electricians, and plumbers? Or is it always always going to be other people's children who will be the servant class for him? ~~ Michael Gove

Again: societies must boost the latent talent in its individuals. There cannot be a framework of pre-selected non-elite "elite". We have seen societies in which selction of the best were sought: the good results show.

And if facilitators to the boost of the latent talent exist, the pool of the selectable for the "elite" is maximized.

> Michael Gove, Thangam Debbonaire, and Daniel Susskind discuss the end of the educated elite. // Does education still prepare us for the future? // Influenced by Plato's philosopher-kings and the Enlightenment's faith in reason, education has for centuries been regarded as the surest path to individual flourishing and collective progress. But today, the consensus is fracturing. Degree premiums are collapsing, and graduate unemployment is rising. Meanwhile, graduate debt is soaring, in the US surpassing $1.8 trillion. For many courses, the salary bounce is now less than the debt level. Moreover, AI threatens to automate the cognitive skills education is supposed to unlock. Nvidia's Jensen Huang calls for skills-based learning: “if you’re an electrician, a plumber, a carpenter — we’re going to need hundreds of thousands". Moreover, critics argue that in a Wikipedia age, with knowledge available instantly to all, it is not the facts that matter, but the judgment and wisdom to choose[...]

The obvious first point must remain that educational systems have largely failed in large parts of the world and that the concern must be a priority - sadly something that if fixed, will take two generations to return proper yields.

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Transcript at: https://iai.tv/video/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-educated-elite

It's hard to comment on the lunacy of this. Elite is important, but whether it is educated or not is about whether or not they still see it as beneficial, whether it is still regarded as valuable among the elite society, and more importantly, on whether the universities still let them in (because intellectually they are on average of course, average, especially when elites mostly marry their peers). But the elite still remains the elite - that does not depend on degrees, but on wealth and social standing. Society should strive to keep them educated in the next generation and banning of legacy admissions is a step in wrong direction: it results in uneducated elite, which definitely makes everyone worse off.