As with one of the other respondents to your comment, I read it mostly as a fun and occasionally provocative flow of thoughts, rather than any specific call to

As with one of the other respondents to your comment, I read it mostly as a fun and occasionally provocative flow of thoughts, rather than any specific call to action. It makes a decent attempt to demarcate the different types of value that the current university experience offers to students. And of course, to do this comprehensively, one must acknowledge that one of the things that university acceptance and attendance offers is some sort of 'signal' of value, or intelligence, or virtue, or something, to a range of people: from parents and friends to wider society, including future employers. Anyway, to TL;DR what I believe the message of the article is, you could try: * A Lambda-school-like model might offer the educational value that major universities offer, but more cost-effectively * A YC-like model might offer the signalling, relationships and networking value that major universities offer, but more quickly and efficiently * We need to acknowledge that the non-educational aspects (as offered by the YC model) are important