Online and personally, in the techie circles. But I have also read some articles on the subject from economics and general news magazines / newspapers (all in paper form), which I sometimes read out of professional curiosity - they're left lying around by stock exchange folk, so sometimes I get a few insights.Ziggy Stardust wrote:Just out of curiosity, where are you hearing this ... ?
It is kinda funny, because I've seen the very same debate unfold in Russia during the "shock therapy" of the 90s - and the idea to cut irrelevant classes and make everything specialized to the extreme won, as it helped to save cash. Results were disastrous.
I think in the US the situation is the opposite; the system is already in a state where you can't got anywhere but up, and specialization is already extreme. Here it is still not completely impossible to re-specialize, switch or take extra unrelated classes for lots of things, and use government assistance to do it, which leads to constant questioning.Ziggy Stardust wrote:At least from my purely anecdotal experience here in the U.S., most conversations on educational reform have been the opposite, focused on trying to improve our rather broken rudimentary/general education system.