{"id":57861,"date":"2011-04-12T13:49:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T19:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=57861"},"modified":"2011-04-12T14:03:16","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T20:03:16","slug":"friends-don%e2%80%99t-let-friends-take-education-advice-from-peter-thiel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=57861","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Friends Don\u2019t Let Friends Take Education Advice From Peter Thiel&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2011\/04\/12\/friends-don%E2%80%99t-let-friends-take-education-advice-from-peter-thiel\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For those not au courant, Peter Thiel has established a bunch of fellowships to encourage bright students to start their own companies rather than prolong their adolescence in college.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, the educational establishment is rallying &#8217;round to nip this idea in the bud.<\/p>\n<p>Sample sound bites:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite having appointments at five elite universities&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230; not that I&#8217;m one to brag&#8230;.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Peter Thiel may have made the right calls with Paypal; he certainly made  a smart decision by investing in Mark Zuckerberg.\u00a0 But he is no expert  on education.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Uh, dude, education isn&#8217;t an end in itself, unless you&#8217;ve got a hefty trust fund or win the Tenure Track Lottery; it&#8217;s there to get a job.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The best path to success is not to drop out of college; it is to complete it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Says the disinterested observer. This is like a government employee telling you that what you really need isn&#8217;t a job but more benefits.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most of the deans in the audience were aghast.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My, what a surprise. Aren&#8217;t you surprised? I&#8217;m sure surprised.<\/p>\n<p>Well, you can predict what the deans said as well as I can. There are two concepts here: <em>education<\/em> as an entity and <em>the education establishment<\/em>, an industry created to provide that entity. Needless to say, those involved in the industry providing a product are going to do their damnedest to make sure that nobody undercuts demand for their product. Like a phone company that confuses <em>phone call<\/em> with <em>communication<\/em>, these guys confuse <em>classroom time (that we get paid for)<\/em> with <em>education<\/em>. And, like the phone company, they&#8217;re in for a rough ride in the years ahead. My heat breaks for them&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. For those not au courant, Peter Thiel has established a bunch of fellowships to encourage bright students to start their own companies rather than prolong their adolescence in college. Needless to say, the educational establishment is rallying &#8217;round to nip this idea in the bud. Sample sound bites: Despite having appointments at five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drivel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57861"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57863,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57861\/revisions\/57863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}