A speaker argues that four-year degrees have become an industry rather than education, questioning whether spending $60-100k makes sense when automation threatens jobs. His company Architas requires degrees for engineering roles but trains production workers in-house, betting that learning how to learn matters more than a diploma.
The number 2 thing I'm gonna say is that college has turned into an industry, not an education. And I'm talking 4-year college. Mm-hmm. There's some places that you really need to do 4-year college, but if you've got kids going to 4-year college, ask yourself, what are they gonna be doing afterwards? Is this something that automation is gonna come for you and come for your job? And learning how to learn, but is it worth spending $60,000, $70,000, $100,000 on college when it's really hard to pay that back? I think there's real questions about our push to college. And I look at, I mean, there's places, you know, if you want to be an engineer, you've got to go to college. Right. But there's other places it's like, do you really need a 4-year degree? And I'm, I'm, and I'm taking that attitude inside Architas that, yeah, we have engineering work that you do need this, you know, you need your 4-year engineering degree or a master's degree or whatever. But, you know, on the production side, we think we can train people in-house. They want to go and get, you know, another degree or go, go get some classes or do associate's degree. you know, we'll support them. We're not at the point to pay tuition, you know, right now, but, but that's something we'd like to do down, down the way.
