Comments on: Stanford And Silicon Valley, Sitting In A Tree /2012/stanford-and-silicon-valley-sitting-in-a-tree/ less helpful Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:03:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Dan Ross /2012/stanford-and-silicon-valley-sitting-in-a-tree/#comment-422947 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 19:03:50 +0000 /?p=13710#comment-422947 Sounds like he’s saying “creativity” is “…toxic to the mission of the university…”

I wonder why he says that?

]]> By: Peter Price /2012/stanford-and-silicon-valley-sitting-in-a-tree/#comment-422672 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 05:43:23 +0000 /?p=13710#comment-422672 As an educator now trying to span the world of academia (40% of my working week) and business (the other 5 days a week), I wonder periodically if “professional” education and business can co-exist and play nicely.

Some days, I can feel a synergy between my academic work and what I’m attempting as an online business owner & educator. Other days, I find a deep distrust of and disdain for business among my academic friends.

It should be pointed out that “business” is far from a homogeneous world, even if restricted to businesses selling to teachers. Certainly Big Business is working to make as much money as possible, as quickly as possible, and will listen to teachers only as long as it takes to find out what they will pay for. But there are also small entrepreneurs who wish to promote change in classrooms via commercial products that do things in ways that haven’t been done before, and to make money along the way.

Perhaps this debate will always exist, reflecting a tension between those committed to education for its own sake and those wanting to make money while changing the world for the better? I’m not convinced that they are mutually exclusive.

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