Peter Thiel’s 20 under 20 on 60 Minutes
Peter Thiel tells students to “Think hard about going to college.” The co-founder of Pay Pal has started a program for young entrepreneurs. He grants his 20 under 20 $100,000 to skip college and dive...
View ArticleMay 21st, 2012: Vivek Wadhwa says ‘Don’t listen to Peter Thiel’
Vivek Wadhwa makes some valid criticisms of Peter Thiel’s 20 under 20 program: While you might get lucky with that startup, the law of averages says that if you don’t go to college, you’ll...
View ArticleMay 22nd, 2012: Jerry Bowyer brings us up to speed on the Ed Bubble
Read the article here! It’s entertaining and informative (Forbes.com. Word up Glenn Reynolds). Here’s what Bowyer has to say about Wadhwa’s criticisms of Thiel: Wadhwa argued that Thiel’s plan to...
View ArticleJune 8th, 2012: Another Criticism of Peter Thiel
President of Clark University, David P. Angel, criticizes Peter Thiel‘s 20 under 20 program here - via the Huffington Post
View ArticleAugust 27th, 2012: Niall Ferguson on American Higher Ed.
…As a professor, I can see much that is wrong with our system – but not so much that I would advise a smart 18-year-old to skip college. The real problem is not that our college system is failing....
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