There's a lot of confirmation bias on this thread. If people want to believe that an elite institution is worthless, they will try to focus on the facts that yi

There's a lot of confirmation bias on this thread. If people want to believe that an elite institution is worthless, they will try to focus on the facts that yield that conclusion. But consider, - Most of the educational material that this article describes as the downfall of universities, has been posted by universities. Don't you think that shows how little it matters? - Anyone who gets into Harvard will have no trouble attending financially. The aid covers the cost. The crazy tuition are for the richest people, who have no trouble paying. - Textbooks and papers have been available at your library for the past few decades. The freedom of information was enough s.t. someone in the 1970s could replicate the experience of studying in college. e.g. “You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.” -Good Will Hunting -- I think what we really want to solve isn't to reduce the value of elite institutions, but rather scale what's already there. The issue is that what's there is much more intangible to identify.