Charles Cormier argues Harvard students often graduate with $200,000 in debt when they could learn practical skills faster through startups, coding classes, or the Thiel Fellowship. He thinks more kids will skip college entirely and focus on what actually works.
And the quality of education is good at Harvard. But at the same time for a lot of the kids, I don't think they're $200,000 in debt. Good. I think they can get a lot of this experiences working for someone like Peter Thiel at a venture fund or working in a job. You can take coding classes now without paying these exorbitant fees to universities and have real practical skills. So I think now versus 20 years ago, if I had to do it again, I'm not sure I would follow the path that I did. I might follow the path you're, you know, you'd like your kids to, to follow. And I think more than like, if I had a guess, my, my 10 year old, when she was ready to go to college, I don't know about her specifically, but half of her friends are going to be like, I don't want to go to university right away. I might try to do something like what you just said, start a company, work at a startup, you know, learn in a, in a job and then build my skills from there. Take some coding classes, learn, travel the world and then, and then I'll see if I need to go get a four year degree in, you know, in something. I certainly wouldn't advise going and getting that degree in English literature or something like that. I would definitely focus on a practical skill that you can really use.
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