Lambda, an Online School, Wants to Teach Nursing
27th April 2019
Nursing, like any labor-intensive field, depends on practice for it’s expertise. It’s easy for a kid in his basement to write programs, but less so for him to learn how to start an IV.
But Ms McRae is also concerned that programmes like Lambda School, though well-meaning, risk undermining existing educational institutions by offering a quicker route to work.
I fail to see how this is a Bad Thing.
The kind of intense optimisation which Lambda espouses cannot, she worries, replace conventional learning, which strives to create not just capable workers but rounded individuals.
Liberal arts, maybe; nursing, not so much. I don’t care if the nurse treating me is a ’rounded individual’, I just want to know that she (or he) is a good nurse.
This ’rounded individual’ bullshit was fine when it applied to the children of the upper-middle class; nowadays (a) that’s not why people go to school, for the most part, and (b) schools don’t do that worth a shit any more.