"But Elon... I just graduated"

well oftentimes business education today and i see it all the time kids come out of college the best colleges wharton and harvard and stanford and some of the great business schools and they'll come out and they won't have practical experience there's too many case studies that aren't practical the people who are doing the work that we care about are figuring out what to do next not following the person who told them what to do next and the problem with most colleges is they are high school but with more binge drinking the a students work for the b students to see students run the businesses and these students dedicate the buildings the entire purpose of a good university is to give you a foundation to fail not a foundation to get an a and if you graduate from college straight a's you have to do some serious soul searching as to why you chose to spend your time doing that you know we ask uh kids that are 16 to 18 years old to make 100 000 debt decisions when they go off to university and they're not prepared for that they don't know what they're getting themselves into they just assume okay i'm going to pay four years of education at 25 000 a pop and when i come out the other side somehow i'll be able to pay it back right that's not how life works anymore it's like the newspaper industry right more printing presses more big buildings right makes us look grander we have brains that we're putting them out there there's there's a point of diminishing returns in terms of what it's worth for a college education and how much debt you're willing to saddle yourself with i mean it's actually kind of funny like um you know if you think you're like what is education like you're basically downloading data and algorithms into your brain and it's it's actually amazingly bad in conventional education because like it shouldn't be like this huge chore um um you've got uh you know someone's standing up there kind of lecturing at people and they've done the same lecture 20 years in a row and they're not very excited about it and in fact i think a lot of things people learn probably there's no point in learning them um because they never use them in the future because a lot of kids just in school kind of puzzled as to why they're there you

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Length: 2min 23sec (143 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 04 2016