{"id":2222,"date":"2011-04-14T00:32:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T04:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=2222"},"modified":"2011-04-14T00:32:21","modified_gmt":"2011-04-14T04:32:21","slug":"dale-stephens-guest-post-on-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/04\/14\/dale-stephens-guest-post-on-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 Dale Stephens’ Guest Post on TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"

I met this kid a while ago. He’s going places. Worth a read<\/a>. Well written and, for his age, I’m proud to call him one of my great “acquaintances” (since I don’t throw around the word friend lightly):<\/p>\n

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I do not think that universities today are preparing students to face the world, a point that Jim Plummer, the Stanford School of Engineering dean, would debate. A dichotomy has arisen between \u201ccollege\u201d and \u201clife.\u201d This is not an artificial crevasse I have imposed. I hate drawing this distinction: I think that life and learning should be mutually inclusive. I always operated on this assumption until I went to college and met students who dreaded \u201clife in the real world.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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