Higher education reform

Blundin suggests an English-language education company in Japan should evolve into a life-coaching platform, which he estimates could scale to hundreds of billions of dollars.

“people aren't learning English because they want English. They're learning English because they want to change their lives”

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Blundin says the social and intellectual formation of university is essential and enduring, while the curriculum is becoming obsolete.

“what we beat on constantly is the curriculum has been the draw in the past and the curriculum is clearly going away”

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Ismail argues universities cannot transform themselves because of their strong institutional immune system and that new universities must be created instead.

“So we'll have to create new universities that do that and then let that become the new gravity center over time”

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Wissner-Gross says he would restructure American research universities into for-profit public benefit corporations to address cost disease.

“I'd love to vivisect them, turn them into the for-profit public benefit corporation at best”

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