How the Search for Right Answers Destroyed Higher Education
From an early age, we’re all conditioned to search for the right answers. After being a straight-A student in high school, I was accepted to UC-Berkeley, the number one public school in America, in 1996.
But I graduated with a 2.97 GPA and was subsequently fired from almost every job I’ve had in my professional life. On the other hand, my sister graduated with honors, earned a masters, became the chief anesthesiology resident at Yale, and completed a fellowship at UCLA.
I’ve accomplished what I have despite my education, not because of it.
Because of the stark contrast between my sister’s outcomes and mine, I’ve spent the last decade exploring why our education system is broken and how we can fix it.
- I’ve asked college professors at elite schools how they would redesign our current education system.
- On the Unmistakable Creative Podcast, I’ve spoken to thought leaders from various industries about how we create an education system to prepare young people for the future of work.
To be clear, I’m a strong advocate of education. But the search for the right answers has caused both students and educators to lose sight of what education is and what it’s not.
