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Peter Thiel heads to campus

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Re: Peter Thiel heads to campus

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> are there 20 of those 60,000 who should perhaps not go to college And he presumes he and his staff are uniquely qualified in identifying those 20 out of 60,000?

He isn't saying "There exist exactly 20 people out of 60k who should not go to college and I have oracular ability for identifying them." He is saying "It is arrogant to assume that, out of 60,000 people attending college, it is impossible to find so many as 20 of them who would be better served by another alternative." Presumably, he thinks the actual numbers is substantially higher than 20, but he doesn't have to g…

Several of his 20 under 20 already graduated from college.

The whole thing is nothing but propaganda to advance his long-standing agenda. Anybody who believes otherwise is a gullible fool.

Re: Peter Thiel heads to campus

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A lot of misinformation in this article regarding Peter Thiel's position on higher education in America, but the posters here have addressed that. What I find surprising is that this course, at least from what I read, will not be available online. I know that an online option would require a greater effort on his part, and that he would also have to be a little less personal/direct in his lectures to make it work, bu…

I don't see a lot of misinformation at all. I see a lot of correct information in the article, and naive propaganda on this website.

Peter Thiel is not a good guy. Peter Thiel doesn't want to make the world better. Peter Thiel is in this world for Peter Thiel, and that's fucking it.

So if he's claiming to be helping somebody else, you already know it's a lie.

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