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Higher education must immediately stop obsolete blackboard teaching. Higher ed requires mentor and collaboration. What is obsolete blackboard teaching? [Lecturing is the] best way to get information from teacher’s notebook (mouth) to student’s notebook without touching the student’s mind.                                                                                         — George Leonard Patterns for bad practices of teaching, what is done in higher education, even best colleges. https://iambrainstorming.blogspot.in/2017/11/patterns-for-bad-practices-of-te...

Incentives Matters: Flow of Money: Govt => Students => Teachers => Infrastructure provider NOT     Students => Private Infrastructure provider => Teachers  or NOT     Govt  => Infrastructure provider and Teachers Incentives are rewards and penalties that motivate behavior Benefits of  this model : 1) No much reliance on the government for the safeguarding of quality education. Teachers as an entrepreneur will take care of it because it will bring competition for quality. 2) Teacher's income depends on the ability to uphold students. So they are solely responsible for their income. They will work for themselves, instead of doing just an obligatory job on a monthly salary. 3) Students will have the freedom to choose a class, not just school. (Funding children not school) It also solves most problems that belong to the coaching center model. Some of the problems of coaching center model, that is solved in it are: 1) There is no...

IITians, doctors, and most desired teachers try to join coaching institute instead of colleges. Reason: If you run a coaching institute, teachers are heavily paid, because about 70-80% of students money goes into the pocket of teachers, but no matter how much students pay to college, teachers are given fixed and very low salary. Also, brilliant students don't aim to join as a teacher, as pay scale is too low. Coaching institute business model works best to provide quality education as teachers have the complete sole responsibility about their amount of income and autonomy to provide quality. If teachers don't perform well, their pay scale will be low, so it creates a subconscious pressure to compete for quality . But this doesn't happen in schools or colleges. How allowing mediocre colleges to provide degree certification creates a problem? Allowing them to provide certificate enables them to bring students despite not providing quality.