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Do we need colleges and universities?
- “Of course”, answered my friend, a university professor. How else would I teach my students?”
- “I still need to learn so much more”, said my daughter.
Well, I agree with my daughter… but there is a good reason, actually several good reasons, to argue with my friend.
Check for yourself, maybe they are not completely unreasonable.
And this is not as much about a problem, as about a suggested solution.

Do we need colleges and universities? - “Of course”, answered my friend, a university professor. How else would I teach my students?” - “I still need to learn so much more”, said my daughter.

What are the top development skills today?
There is more than one answer and the main driving force is your passion. For me it is developing and teaching artificial intelligence (AI) apps with Java. It is interesting that some time ago treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin in his interview to Axis said that “AI taking human jobs is 50-100 years away”. AI means different things for different people. Mnuchin might think about really intelligent robots, who can pass the Turing test as “a thinking machine”.
We are not there yet and who knows when will be there. Yes, AI is taking human jobs today. Starting from car making to car driving and more to finance management. Whenever a task is well understood and described, it can be outsourced. First to cheaper human labor, then to a new technology, which will be responsible for this task.
But, when a new technology closes one job, it opens new doors. This is your opportunity. Read more at the article Changing Formula of Education, https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/changing-formula-education-jeff-yefim-zhuk and http://TopDevelopmentSkills.com

Changing formula of education This article proposes significant changes in the current approach to education. The rising costs of education, the mismatches between academic and