David Brooks writes that technical knowledge—”the statistical knowledge you need to understand what market researchers do, the biological knowledge you need to grasp the basics of what nurses do”—can be “memorized by rote”
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2013-04-05
Summary:
The popular New York Times columnist writes: The best part of the rise of online education is that it forces us to ask: What is a university for? . . . My own stab at an answer would be that universities are places where young people acquire two sorts of knowledge, what the philosopher Michael [...]