"Friends Don’t Let Friends Take Education Advice From Peter Thiel"

[Dawson Leery]

http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/12/friends-don%E2%80%99t-let-friends-take-education-advice-from-peter-thiel/

"The message Thiel is sending to the world with his fellowship, which rewards students for dropping out of school, is wrong. The best path to success is not to drop out of college; it is to complete it. Yes, I know that Thiel is targeting exceptional students and is rallying against elite, expensive education. But as the title of Sarah Lacy’s piece shows, as does the controversy it has generated, the message that is getting out is that all “higher education” isn’t cost justified—for any student.

I brought up the Thiel Fellowship in a panel discussion at the American Society for Engineering Education Engineering Deans Institute, yesterday. Most of the deans in the audience were aghast. They couldn’t believe that there were debates like this happening in Silicon Valley. I told them that more than a dozen students had approach me over the past few months asking for advice on whether they should drop out; that students took people like Thiel very seriously. I asked three of the deans at the conference to help me quench this fire. Here is what they have to say."

Now, college is not for everyone, though it never hurts to go to a community college to learn technical skills. For those going into business, it helps to learn about management and accounting.

Peter Thiel talks down the concept of higher education though he has a law degree from Stanford.

Also --> See Peter Thiel "Libertarian":

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=s&q=the+purloined+letter+savannah&um=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=vw#sclient=psy&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&channel=s&q=peter+thiel+libertarian&aq=0&aqi=g1g-v2&aql=&oq=&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=53fd2b5286cafcf7