Most students do not need the university to have expensive professors or expensive administration or research capabilities. They need a place that will teach them in a classroom. And they also need a place that will give them a credential to prove what they learned. It doesn’t matter that random professor is doing random research - it’s some underpaid grad student that is teaching you after all. And these things don’t need to be under one roof.
We badly need alternatives - for colleges and also public schooling in America. I don’t know if this is the solution or one among them, but I would like to see more experimental approaches like it.
Pedigree matters tremendously. I don't want it to! I went to a state school, I want to believe going to Harvard doesn't matter. But it's bananas to think it actually doesn't. Alex Karp doesn't believe elite education is useless, he wants YOU to believe it's useless.
Clicked on 20 random Palantir profiles on LinkedIn. All went to college, disproportionate number of ivies/elite
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