傑瑞米 (Jeremy Rossman) 是一名麻省理工學院 (MIT) 的學生,但是他實在不想再忍受昂貴的學費了。麻省理工學院9個月的學費加生活費高達150萬台幣 (44720美金)。
![Jeremy Rossman was sick of his growing student loan debt, especially since he went to MIT. There, undergraduate and living expenses for 9 months is $44,720.](https://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/56652f0ea7393.png)
於是他決定退學,並且建立了一所他稱之為「反抗大學體系」的設施重新定義了教育的意義。
![Instead of just letting the higher-education system keep him down, he decided to do something about it. He dropped out of MIT and re-invented the whole damn thing, which he calls the anti-college.](https://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/56652f104e172.png)
他和共同創辦人Ashu Desai將這所位於加州舊金山的大學體系替代教育設施稱為「The Make School」。
![With co-founder Ashu Desai, they created The Make School, a college replacement program for founders and developers, in San Francisco, California.](https://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/56652f11b46c6.png)
這所學校的學費不需事先支付,是讓學生畢業找到工作後才需要支付學費,避免讓學生們還沒畢業就欠了一屁股債。因此幫助學生找到工作就是他們的首要目標,畢竟如果學生找不到工作他們也收不到錢。
![The school gives students the option to not pay tuition upfront, making them debt-free. The model only charges students once they find employment after graduation. So, if you find yourself unemployed after being a student at The Make School, they suffer right along with you.](https://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/56652f135e2c3.png)
學費就是收畢業生錢兩年的25%的薪水!所以說找到工作才會需要繳學費。
他們也不會考試,但是會有專案導向式的工作項目,傑瑞米說他們教育的核心哲學是不會連續兩年都教一樣的東西,因為電腦科技及軟體工程本身就是一個演進非常快速的領域。
![There are no tests. Instead, it’s all project-based work. Rossman says “Our core philosophy is if you teach the same thing two years in a row, it’s got to be wrong because computer science as a field and software engineering as a discipline is moving so fast.”](https://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/56652f14d3dc6.png)
到了9月,The Make School正式開學第一年就收到了接近30個全天學生,其中包含多數特地離開正式大學教育體系的大學學生。這裡的學生都共同生活在宿舍中,由於他們的位置就在舊金山,他們亦能時常接觸到矽谷的科技公司。
![In September, The Make School started their first year with almost 30 full-time students, with many who left traditional universities to take a swing at the alternative learning environment. They all live together in dorm-style housing. Since they’re in San Fran, they have access to top tech companies in Silicon Valley.](https://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/56652f151e875.jpg)
這間學校除了教導學生設計程式外還有眾多關於日常生活的課程,例如健康營養、運動、寫作。傑瑞米說道,「還有其它關於生活技巧的教學,包含溝通、同情心、瞭解歷史跟道德倫理。」
![Besides programming, Rossman also offers classes focused on everyday life, such as nutrition, health, exercise and writing. “And then some more generic life skills, communication, empathy, understanding the history of tech and then a big segment on ethics,” Rossman adds. “So Uber, what do we think? Airbnb, where do we stand? Is it okay to start a company in that way? Is it beneficial for society? Are the laws out of date? How does this all work behind the scenes?”](https://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/56652f16d0988.png)
他們會在課堂上提出以下這些問題讓大家討論,「大家認為Uber是什麼樣的公司」、「我們對於Airbnb的看法是什麼?這樣的公司對於社會有益處嗎?這樣的公司背後是如何運作的?」
這種創新的教育方式可想見一定會有人反對,但是傑瑞米卻超霸氣的如此反駁,「LinkedIn、Lyft跟其它身價不斐的公司來到我們這邊徵才卻沒有去你小孩就讀的大學徵才這件事情的發生不是沒有原因的。」
![Obviously, not everyone has welcomed this progressive way of learning with open arms. Rossmann has a rebuttal for them: “When LinkedIn and Lyft and these companies with tens of millions of dollars of funding are all committing contractually to coming and recruit here, and they don’t come to the school where your child is studying, that means something.”](https://teepr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/56652f1865b5e.png)
來源:the Chive
俗話說的好,活到老學到老,小編現在出發去舊金山加入這個課程還來得及吧!?!?
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