Dear Jony…
Ian Coats MacColl
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Reading about Tony Fadell’s inability to thrive in Google’s culture as a challenging move from secrecy to transparency, I wonder if those from Apple’s culture could teach if they wanted to? (both permission to teach and the mindset to share what they know)

I didn’t enjoy design education as I felt it fell short of what it could have been. Maybe somewhere in the world, it is the way I had wanted it… That motivated me to volunteer to teach a class which the students loved and said was both their most useful class during the week and the most enjoyable. I never got offered a chance to return and miss teaching, but I wonder given such praise from the students why that never happened. I think it could have been because the students were never asked what they liked, little or no feedback is certainly a problem with education. I think the connection between industry and education is also as important, but maybe similar to above they have never been asked and are like two teenagers at their first dance who want ask each other to dance, but spend the night on opposite sides of the room.