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Why do elite colleges pump students into the same five industries: law, medicine, tech, investing, and management consulting?
For answers, let’s turn to the philosopher René Girard. https://t.co/87x6WKEazK
NY Mag profiled an Ivy League college admission consulting firm working with parents of New York private high school students.
Here is the setup:
▫️190 clients paying $120k each a year for their child ($23m total revenue)
▫️In exchange: children get basically... See more
1981 memo on hiring from Bear Sterns
Sought ppl with a degree in PSD - poor, smart and a deep desire to get rich
Warns agst MBAs
Co died 37 years later
Prob started hiring MBAs https://t.co/uUhFgac9Yp
A great rant on @slatestarcodex ‘s recent post on why schooling is mostly a waste of time:
“Now that we've established that education is just daycare, let's discuss why.
Over 30 years ago a group of parents decided to start a public school in my area. I thought they were mad. I already knew... See more
Michael Strongx.com“There is something very odd about a society where the most talented people get all tracked toward the same elite colleges, where they end up studying the same small number of subjects and going into the same small number of careers… It’s very limiting for our society as well as for those students.”
David Perell • Peter Thiel’s Religion
What's wrong with American higher education? Are colleges corrupt? Greedy? Woke?
I worked for 12 years to earn my BA, MA, and PhD in History. I'm now a professor at one of the more conservative Christian colleges in America.
A 🧵 on what US colleges get wrong. 1/27 https://t.co/eqYSHQAoQc
