Pipeline or Catalyst? The Dual Paths of Elite Education

Ultimately, the true measure of any educational experience lies in how it empowers individuals to think critically, pursue meaningful goals, and contribute to society in ways that resonate with their authentic aspirations, conventional or otherwise, while maintaining reasonable levels of personal well-being.

However, when a university over-relies on pipeline programs, it risks compromising its deeper societal role, shifting from a creator of knowledge and cultural progress to a narrowly focused supplier of workforce-ready graduates. There is nothing wrong with it but by merely focusing on workforce readiness the Universities eventually lose their value... See more

y creatively changing the world, I mean that a person must be revealing and expanding on some new facets of the world – so just reaching the top of your banking career and creating high-scale impact in something that was utterly predictable (for example, you closed a multi-billion dollar acquisition for amazon and an existing retail giant in a deve... See more