Via Jerry Becker: Steve Jobs vs. Bill Gates on Education

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From INSIDE HIGHER ED, Monday, March 7, 2011. See http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/03/07/qt#253007

 

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 jobs and drive that state economy in the future" -- [See http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/03/01/gates_tells_governors_they_might_determine_public_university_program_funding_based_on_job_creation ]. 

 

But in a talk last week in which he unveiled the latest Apple products, Jobs urged a broader focus for education -- and specifically praised the liberal arts. "It's in Apple's DNA that technology alone is not enough -- it's technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our heart sing and nowhere is that more true than in these post-PC devices," Jobs said, according to an account in The Seattle Times -- [See http://o.seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2014381153_brier03.html ].