Forbes October 7, 2024
Higher education was born, in places like Oxford and Cambridge, as a tutorial system. But over the centuries, higher education moved further and further away from that model through waves of expansion and democratization—reaching a point where the 500-person lecture hall came to be synonymous with college.
Similarly, apprenticeship was our first system for developing new workers—a multi-year process of learning alongside an expert tradesperson. But as the world went through waves of industrialization and the corporation rose, the training of workers took on the same mass quality as other areas of production. These changes occurred not because mass education was most effective, but because individualized instruction couldn’t scale to educate millions.
Both sectors have spent the past 20 years...
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