@elesparto I can't speak for everyone who goes to Ivy league schools, but a lot of individuals who go there end up being down to earth. I mean a lot of people at Ivy league schools are rather poor since the schools provide huge financial aid so its actually easier to go to Harvard than it is to go to a state school for a poorer individual.
@sleepcity I agree. The problem is that he is focusing on the wrong things. Everything he says indicate the failure of society and current college system, not that too many people attend college. What he said makes me think there should be a drastic change in paradigms, not less people getting an education
Peter Thiel makes a number of excellent points. I enjoyed the contributions all of the speakers made to this debate but when Thiel spoke I couldn't help but feel like he was reading my mind. This comes from a 28 year-old American who is in the middle of his first bachelor's degree at a state university. Nearly every one of my friends attended expensive private colleges and are now saddled with obscene debts. Most of them aren't working a career path, they're working in the service industry.
funny how the american inteligence squared debates are "over explained" at the start compared to the other debates around the world.
RandomDudegimme 3 months ago
@elesparto I can't speak for everyone who goes to Ivy league schools, but a lot of individuals who go there end up being down to earth. I mean a lot of people at Ivy league schools are rather poor since the schools provide huge financial aid so its actually easier to go to Harvard than it is to go to a state school for a poorer individual.
somniumai 3 months ago
you learn how to be a snob from an ivy league school...
Elesparto 3 months ago
@sleepcity I agree. The problem is that he is focusing on the wrong things. Everything he says indicate the failure of society and current college system, not that too many people attend college. What he said makes me think there should be a drastic change in paradigms, not less people getting an education
farquezy 3 months ago
Peter Thiel makes a number of excellent points. I enjoyed the contributions all of the speakers made to this debate but when Thiel spoke I couldn't help but feel like he was reading my mind. This comes from a 28 year-old American who is in the middle of his first bachelor's degree at a state university. Nearly every one of my friends attended expensive private colleges and are now saddled with obscene debts. Most of them aren't working a career path, they're working in the service industry.
sleepcity 4 months ago
I loved this debate. It was I who coined the phrase "Education Bubble" in 2006.
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n00ffensebut 4 months ago