Are elite U.S. universities worth it?
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Are elite U.S. universities worth it?
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#2It will be interesting to see, in 15 or 20 years, what the collective definition of elite education becomes. It is clearly related to the cultural importance afforded to it by the inertia of what was valued in previous generations and eons.
With the technological revolution that rewards innovation, perseverance, ingenuity, and quality, all produced at high pace - the role of the actual institution of education attended by someone seems to matter less than the quality of their work.
It certainly does boil back to purpose, however, in the end: are you attending because you want the name and the social networking to benefit you, or because elite educators exist in that institution? If the latter, you can still get a top education at less-than-elite institutions; if the former, however, as long as well-connected, wealthy, and powerful minds attend school together, there will always be a value to so-called elite schooling, for certain people.
For my two cents, the value of 'elite' education is increasingly irrelevant to the state of industry, innovation, and employment.
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#3yeh, i think that college in general is bogus. i understand i have a minority opinion. but, i think that if you are driven and want to succeed in something, it will be self taught from videos, books, blogs, the internet.
there are millions of ways to learn without going through this system that forces you to do stuff you dont want to learn. slow down to the pace of the college material and to other slower students.
and in terms of getting a job, i think that it is easier to get a job based on past experiances/accomplishments rather then saying what college you went to