Elon Musk is opening a Montessori school in Texas this fall

[LevelUP]

"Sofi recently graduated with a BA in Individualized Study from NYU Gallatin, where they’ve built a concentration titled A Theatre Where Many Theatres Can Fit: Queering and Decolonizing Theatre Practice."

So it sounds like a make-your-own-major type of program. I'd personally not draw any conclusions from one student's quirky, low-ROI degree focus.

Ya weird, like I said.

[NotJoeBiden]

"Sofi recently graduated with a BA in Individualized Study from NYU Gallatin, where they’ve built a concentration titled A Theatre Where Many Theatres Can Fit: Queering and Decolonizing Theatre Practice."

So it sounds like a make-your-own-major type of program. I'd personally not draw any conclusions from one student's quirky, low-ROI degree focus.

Ya weird, like I said.

It’s more weird how much yall like to hyper focus on what a small minority of people decided to study. Just leave them alone.

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"Sofi recently graduated with a BA in Individualized Study from NYU Gallatin, where they’ve built a concentration titled A Theatre Where Many Theatres Can Fit: Queering and Decolonizing Theatre Practice."

So it sounds like a make-your-own-major type of program. I'd personally not draw any conclusions from one student's quirky, low-ROI degree focus.

Amazing you have done more investigate journalism in a few minuted than these youtube “journalists”. Maybe they would benefit from a more formal education in the matter…

[LevelUP]

These sound like thesis and/or dissertation titles, not degrees. NYU lists all the degrees on their website. I dont know how I can make this any more clear.

It looks like Fmsoa was right, and you were wrong. Those are real degrees.

"Sofi recently graduated with a BA in Individualized Study from NYU Gallatin, where they’ve built a concentration titled A Theatre Where Many Theatres Can Fit: Queering and Decolonizing Theatre Practice."

So it sounds like a make-your-own-major type of program. I'd personally not draw any conclusions from one student's quirky, low-ROI degree focus.

Ya weird, like I said.

It’s more weird how much yall like to hyper focus on what a small minority of people decided to study. Just leave them alone.

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"Sofi recently graduated with a BA in Individualized Study from NYU Gallatin, where they’ve built a concentration titled A Theatre Where Many Theatres Can Fit: Queering and Decolonizing Theatre Practice."

So it sounds like a make-your-own-major type of program. I'd personally not draw any conclusions from one student's quirky, low-ROI degree focus.

Amazing you have done more investigate journalism in a few minuted than these youtube “journalists”. Maybe they would benefit from a more formal education in the matter…

I knew these were custom degrees by the sound of them.

• I agree the tech people on this forum are pretty smart (I might be biased here)
  
  
• I agree these seem like low-ROI degrees.
  
  
• I agree those are quirky or weird degrees. 
  

[sanantone]

The degree is in individualized studies, and you have to use courses that are available. You can call your concentration whatever you want, but at the end of the day, you have a general studies degree. Why are politics being brought into the education sub-forum? This forum is now worse than the sister forum. Political extremism and the promotion of junk degrees from unaccredited colleges. This forum has really gone downhill.

[LevelUP]

No joke: Rutgers University offers underwater basket making class





This is weird, too.

[Jonathan Whatley]

No joke: Rutgers University offers underwater basket making class

This is weird, too.

They're on scuba, and it's well established scuba diving training is worth college credit. Several PADI certifications have ACE recommendations. The College of the Florida Keys offers associates degrees and certificates in diving instruction, research diving, and diving medical technology. Several recreational scuba instructor training programs are state-licensed vocational schools. Many scuba instructors are veterans who took their VA funding to these schools. Commercial diving (typically in surface-supplied hardhats, for applications like underwater construction and inspection) has extremely rigorous training that should also be worth college credit.

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Remember when Elon's friend Kanye West started a private school? According to lawsuits the school featured

1) Windows were empty because Ye doesn't like glass
2) Sushi 'every single day'
3) No outside food, no utensils, no tables
4) No class on the second floor because Ye was 'afraid of stairs'
5) Chairs were banned, artwork not allowed on walls
6) No books, doors locked from outside, crossword puzzles banned
7) Students and staff required to wear Ye's Yeezy clothes
8) No 'proper' disciplinary system amid rampant bullying
9) Ye doesn't 'believe' in cleaning products
10) Wires 'sticking out' and an electrical fire

The 10 strangest, most troubling allegations about Ye's Donda Academy (Tim Stelloh, NBC News, July 7, 2023)

[LevelUP]

They're on scuba, and it's well established scuba diving training is worth college credit.

She stated in the video that the class, which was dated 8 years ago, was unaccredited.

Micah Lebowitz could barely keep a straight face as he said:
"Honestly, the reason I took this class is that I needed more stuff for my resume and I wanted to impress future employers"

That class pretty much became a meme. 

Remember when Elon's friend Kanye West started a private school? According to lawsuits the school featured

1) Windows were empty because Ye doesn't like glass
2) Sushi 'every single day'
3) No outside food, no utensils, no tables
4) No class on the second floor because Ye was 'afraid of stairs'
5) Chairs were banned, artwork not allowed on walls
6) No books, doors locked from outside, crossword puzzles banned
7) Students and staff required to wear Ye's Yeezy clothes
8) No 'proper' disciplinary system amid rampant bullying
9) Ye doesn't 'believe' in cleaning products
10) Wires 'sticking out' and an electrical fire

I like 2) Sushi 'every single day'

I don't think this thread was meant to be political. It was just highlighting a school with a different teaching method that could be beneficial to society.

[NotJoeBiden]

They're on scuba, and it's well established scuba diving training is worth college credit.

She stated in the video that the class, which was dated 8 years ago, was unaccredited.

Micah Lebowitz could barely keep a straight face as he said:
"Honestly, the reason I took this class is that I needed more stuff for my resume and I wanted to impress future employers"

That class pretty much became a meme. 

Remember when Elon's friend Kanye West started a private school? According to lawsuits the school featured

1) Windows were empty because Ye doesn't like glass
2) Sushi 'every single day'
3) No outside food, no utensils, no tables
4) No class on the second floor because Ye was 'afraid of stairs'
5) Chairs were banned, artwork not allowed on walls
6) No books, doors locked from outside, crossword puzzles banned
7) Students and staff required to wear Ye's Yeezy clothes
8) No 'proper' disciplinary system amid rampant bullying
9) Ye doesn't 'believe' in cleaning products
10) Wires 'sticking out' and an electrical fire

I like 2) Sushi 'every single day'

I don't think this thread was meant to be political. It was just highlighting a school with a different teaching method that could be beneficial to society.

People are not criticizing the concept of a Montessori school, they are criticizing Elon Musk who constantly attacks education, particularly higher education.

[Dr. Doom]

Elon Musk is opening a Montessori school in Texas this fall


"A new Montessori school is opening outside of Austin, backed by Elon Musk."


https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk...39638.html

I like Elon Musk. I like Maria Montssori. Her face was on the Italian 1000 Lire note until Italy switched to the Euro.  I always had fists full of Lire when I was a young Sailor on liberty in Italy.


What is a Montessori?

[Charles Fout]

Who, not what.

Dr. Maria Montessori was an Italian educator. She developed innovative ways of teaching primary education during the mid-nineteenth century in Italy. In recent decades, Private schools using Montessori methods have become popular in the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Montessori