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No, it is very specifically a liberal arts school, with a capital L. Steve Jobs, in essence, is the greatest living argument from the past 50 years for why a liberal arts education is invaluable.
Higher education will see the influence of Steve Jobs’s products for years to come: Tiny, elegant devices doing more and more; the opening up of individual innovation through apps; all of one ...
These days everyone is for education reform. The question is which approach is best. I favor the Steve Jobs model. In 1984 Steve introduced the Mac with a Super Bowl ad. It ran only once. It ran ...
According to Steve Jobs, It Turns You Into a ‘Bozo’ If you don’t look past education and skills, you will end up building a team of “bozos”. EXPERT OPINION BY TOMMY MELLO , FOUNDER, A1 ...
Jobs on teacher unions, circa 1995: The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education because it's not a meritocracy. It turns into a bureaucracy, which is exactly what has happened.
Jobs also discussed a new model for education in the interview, well over 10 years before his concept of free textbooks on iPads was revealed in Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs bio. Here’s an ...
Of all the different ways one could sum up the enormity of the void Steve Jobs' passing has left, let's add one more to the mix: How much Apple technology now used in mainstream classrooms.
Could the Bill Gates-Steve Jobs rivalry extend to educational philosophy? Gates last week gave a talk to the nation's governors in which he urged a focus on "categories [of courses] that help fill ...
“Steve Jobs was a true visionary who was one of the first to understand technology’s power to improve teaching and education,” said Jim Steyer, the CEO and founder of Common Sense Media.
Editor’s note: Steve Jobs, whom Apple announced has died this week, recorded an interview with the Smithsonian Institution in 1995, in which he outlined his ideas on technology and education, among ...
In 2010, Montessori schoolteachers June and Bobby George were so inspired by Steve Jobs' introduction of the iPad, that they decided to pour their life savings into into the hands of app developer ...