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As I just posted on your blog: I'm sorry to be harsh, but you're completely off-base with this rant. "College Education is a Waste of Time" Just like anythin

As I just posted on your blog: I'm sorry to be harsh, but you're completely off-base with this rant. "College Education is a Waste of Time" Just like anything else, it's how you utilize that education. I built relationships with VCs, businesspeople, entrepreneurs, media, and many people who have been helpful and will continue to be helpful later in life. I built a company while in college. I lived my life while in college. People can't help but hear me out because of my specific college affiliation and my accomplishments there. Everything's a waste of time if you don't know how to use it. "College education is just a piece of paper" No, it's not. It's a series of relationships, friendships, and knowledge that people can and do use. It's a door opener. VCs already know a lot about my qualifications when I walk into the room. The only person that can devalue that "piece of paper" is you. "What is there after college?" Whatever you want to do. I took the entrepreneurial path, not the "salary" path you generalize with. I'll end it there, but the point is, you have it completely wrong. Nothing's a waste of time if you build meaningful relationships, knowledge, and happiness during that time.

lbrandy 18y ago
College is more than just a networking opportunity. College exposes you to the vast world of ideas that you didn't know existed. It's a well established fact that the more incompetent someone is, the more confident they are in their own competence. This can be directly applied to knowledge. The more ignorant someone is, the more confident they are in their expertise. College is the place you go to that educates you enough to realize how little you know. How little you will ever know. A college education is what turns people from ignorant and arrogant into basically ignorant but humble and ready to learn some domain well enough to be truly considered an expert. It gives you a lifetime of ideas to explore in detail, when time permits. This includes both the ideas of your professional domain and its neighbors, but also the domains of the general public good (like economics). This post ignores the broader issue. It pretends the purpose of college is friggin vocational job training.. as in.. you decide when you are 18 what job you want, and then you train for that job, get that job, and work at it the rest of your life...

lbrandy 18y ago

College is more than just a networking opportunity. College exposes you to the vast world of ideas that you didn't know existed. It's a well established fact that the more incompetent someone is, the more confident they are in their own competence. This can be directly applied to knowledge. The more ignorant someone is, the more confident they are in their expertise. College is the place you go to that educates you enough to realize how little you know. How little you will ever know. A college education is what turns people from ignorant and arrogant into basically ignorant but humble and ready to learn some domain well enough to be truly considered an expert. It gives you a lifetime of ideas to explore in detail, when time permits. This includes both the ideas of your professional domain and its neighbors, but also the domains of the general public good (like economics). This post ignores the broader issue. It pretends the purpose of college is friggin vocational job training.. as in.. you decide when you are 18 what job you want, and then you train for that job, get that job, and work at it the rest of your life...