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Alternative education is getting great results. I personally funded an alternative to college to train software engineers(Holberton School). We have no formal teachers, no lecture, students learn by practicing and collaborating with peers. We started 9 months ago but already got students at NASA, Dropbox, Docker and Apple.

Look at Andela as well, accelerated training, then teams of "students" are integrated into companies and they learn while working.

Finally, coding bootcamps have also their share of success stories.

There is honestly A LOT of broken, unless you are studying in an Ivy League, I really think the education far from what the current & next generation needs.




Coding bootcamps and training people for specific skills is something quite different from general education for children.


That is true :)

I was just illustrating an example of alternative education that works. As you said none are working.

One for children: altschool is doing very well. Khan academy is also a hit.


Among other things, getting into a coding bootcamp tends to be both a selective and a self-selecting process. Many of the people who go into coding bootcamps would do acceptably in conventional educational settings too. School education is a bit different.


A ce sujet, pensez-vous qu'il faille encore, en France, unanimement préférer faire une école type Epitech pour devenir purement développeur, ou passer par une structure alternative telle que l'école 42 que vous connaissez bien et qui semble être le modèle du futur? Comment 42 est-elle vue par les recruteurs, de par sa nouveauté? Merci




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