>> An individual with prestigious credentials prospers, but society can’t get rich simply by awarding multitudinous fancy degrees Me learning more doesn't make

>> An individual with prestigious credentials prospers, but society can’t get rich simply by awarding multitudinous fancy degrees Me learning more doesn't make you less knowledgable. Me printing money makes you poorer. This comparison of the money vs education case isn't useful. >> colleges rarely teach new, cutting-edge skills Do colleages teach ANY skills? Is that their purpose? I studied at the University of Glasgow in 2001, in my first programming class when i arrived, i had to land a rocket, SpaceX style, exploring the concepts of safety in the Ada language in the process. In my second year i was thrown into functional programming in Haskell. Are these skills i could apply in the real world? Not directly, but the concepts were mind-expanding.