Techcrunch released an synopsis from an interview by Peter Thiel and his views on higher education:
But Thiel’s issues with education run even deeper. He thinks it’s fundamentally wrong for a society to pin people’s best hope for a better life on something that is by definition exclusionary. “If Harvard were really the best education, if it makes that much of a difference, why not franchise it so more people can attend? Why not create 100 Harvard affiliates?” he says. “It’s something about the scarcity and the status. In education your value depends on other people failing. Whenever Darwinism is invoked it’s usually a justification for doing something mean. It’s a way to ignore that people are falling through the cracks, because you pretend that if they could just go to Harvard, they’d be fine. Maybe that’s not true.”
Peter is building a program that pays college students $100K to drop out of school and start companies. While awesome in some respects - it's not a truly scalable solution, but is doing something no one has whispered in years - creating an alternative option to an expensive degree.
Prediction: Ideas like this will be popping up more and more (see some evidence already). Mark it down, higher education is being attacked from all sides, and now the movement has a powerful new face.
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