The past decade has seen a student-loan binge, so that today Americans owe well over six hundred billion dollars in college debt. That’s a burden that’s hard to carry at a time when more than two million college graduates are unemployed and millions more are underemployed.
We ask our students to be good observers, consider the world carefully and to analyze the implications of what they see. As educators, it’s time we do the same….
When I began teaching a course called “Writing for the Web,” three years ago, I pictured myself scrambling to keep up with my plugged-in, tech-savvy students. I was sure I was in over my head. So I was stunned to discover that most of the 20-year-olds I meet know very little about the Internet, and even less about how to communicate effectively online.
Thiel also reiterated his belief that we’re in an education bubble — he thinks higher education pricing has grown faster than any other sector of spending, and the economics don’t work for all but the top (most expensive) schools.
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