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Elite Education | The Point Magazine
As colleges lost their monopoly on information, college became less about learning and more about signaling. Whatever value they once provided is diminishing. Peter Thiel argues that college has become an expensive insurance policy for upper middle class parents who don’t want to see their children fall through the cracks of society.
David Perell • What the Hell Is Going On?
The second disadvantage, implicit in what I’ve been saying, is that an elite education inculcates a false sense of self-worth. Getting to an elite college, being at an elite college, and going on from an elite college—all involve numerical rankings: SAT, GPA, GRE. You learn to think of yourself in terms of those numbers.
William Deresiewicz • The American Scholar: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education - William Deresiewicz
Changing direction requires…leadership that views the university idealistically, as something more than a business and something better than a slave to the logic of economic competition.9
Clayton M. Christensen • The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out
