A couple of weeks back I mentioned that I had been busy working on an independent study. It is done, uploaded and I'm pretty proud of it.
One of my fascinations outside of Advertising is education, specifically higher education. Learning has been something I've loved from a young age and I'm naturally inquisitive. I'm also very wary of blindly believing in any system. All of this led to my study of whether college today is effective, it's not, and what people can do about it.
I also talked to a friend who pointed to the blind belief that a degree can define whether or not someone is suitable for a job. We agreed that it is inherently harmful to believe that that alone is enough, and some jobs don't need a college degree and would be better off if people went into apprenticeship programs.
This isn't a solution for advertising necessarily but the problems facing higher ed are troubling and I can see how candidates from outside the system might be able to produce better work than those in "proper" advertising programs.
I hope you enjoy the video and if you have any comments leave them here or shoot me a quick email. I'd love to hear your thoughts.