Is college an expensive waste of time?
Peter Thiel and Vivek Wadhwa have debated this question repeatedly — on 60 Minutes, at an Intelligence Squared debate in Chicago, and most recently at The Nantucket Project, a festival of ideas that was held on Nantucket, Massachusetts earlier this month.
via The Future of Higher Education: Massive Online Open Disruption | Collective Intelligence | Big Think.
“The panel did not disappoint. And yet, most of the fireworks did not come from exchanges between Thiel and Wadhwa. The real zingers were instead supplied by Larry Summers, the former president of Harvard who said very pointedly “the idea that there is a massive over-investment in education that needs to get scaled back is very badly wrong.”
You can watch the whole panel here
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