College

“Being a great prompt writer right now coming out of college is probably the most important thing you can do.”

“Now dropping out is almost the establishment. So you see people drop out just for the sake of it. And I think that's definitely wrong because there are huge advantages to being in college.”

“I have long maintained that better than a business school degree, Journalism, one-on-one, should be a mandatory subject in every college, which is newspaper running in particular.”

“That, that, that's my plan for my kids, dude. Like, I want them to just build, like bootstrap businesses in high, high school. And they can skip the whole college and, like corporate life.”

“Our kids at college aren't getting paid, they're all four-oh students.”

“The margin of Americans who now believe that college is worth the cost Has gone from plus 13 a decade ago to -30.”

“Will these skills be necessary in the future? [4402] Elon Musk: Probably not. [4404] Elon Musk: Because we're going to be in, like, a post-work society.”

“I think that so much of the reason that college is no longer valuable from an educational standpoint is that that information is all available online.”

“I often see people saying just like, oh, if you can just drop out when you're 18 and just start working, why would you go to college? And I think this is completely wrong, but like maybe it's good advice for five percent of the population who probably would ha…”

“In high school, if she says the sky is orange, the answer to the test is orange. When you get to college, you can argue with the professor all you want. High school, color inside the lines, give the teacher what she wants, make sure she loves you, and you're g…”

“It's about 50% of undergraduates will drop out.”

“For colleges, they lose seventeen billion dollars in tuition every single year to dropouts.”

“What folks don't realize is that federal financial aid legally requires colleges to take attendance.”

“I think, you know, college is just less and less relevant today. You know, I don't think it's getting any better with you know, AI and just how much you know, the knowledge is essentially just democratized on the internet. You can learn anything on YouTube at …”

“I feel like everyone should have One or two years of psychology and college, whether you want to be a doctor or a lawyer or a mechanic, I think everybody should be forced to learn a year or two of psychology instead of we take these elective classes that are l…”

“It's actually much fairer to disadvantaged students to weight standardized testing more highly than all the other things that colleges generally weight.”

“I think people are starting to realize, okay, college is clearly not worth the money.”

“We as a society are running a scam and ripping off a huge percentage of our young people who are going to college with the clear expectation that they're going to get a higher quality job and being able to pay for college. But that's absolutely not the case.”

“That's kind of the ultimate treating the symptom and not the cause, because why can't any of these students pay back their loans? And the obvious answer is college isn't worth the money you pay for it. And then it doesn't translate into a job that enables you …”

“Not sending kids to college. It's a waste of time and money. I think it's worse than that. You send kids to these places, they are brainwashed with immorality.”

“The problem in America with college is not getting in. It's getting out.”

“Like right now, there's no reason to go if you know what you want to be when you graduate. Because all of it is online for free and you can just start being the thing like quickly, but the accountability to actually do it is the reason people don't.”

“Then there's the incentives that it creates for colleges, which is, well, I'm just going to keep jacking up tuition because if they did it once, they may do it again.”

“In an ideal world, I don't think we would have college as a four-year experience. It would be more like a GitHub page where you've been certified in different ways, online, offline, University of Austin. You took two classes at Princeton over the summer. You l…”

“The problem is that people don't choose to go to college for the classes. They don't choose to go to college for the information they go because they want the stamp and they want the social experience. And then they want, you know, the parents need that as an …”

“College, this four year playground with a whole bunch of potential co-founders all around you with a whole bunch of potential customers all around you with nothing but free time and nothing but energy and no mortgage, no nothing. It's all paid for. It's a gian…”

“I think the college is the best time to start a business. I think you start five businesses. Your classmates are going to be your early adopters. Your professors can be your board of directors. You have free space because there's classrooms available everywher…”

“Probably, yes. I'll still go. It still likes to get that hands-on experience, where I'll probably won't get from building a business other than, I've learned a lot so far, so already at this age, and it reminded me of it that I'm still a teenager, right? I'm s…”

“First of all, colleges are always going to exist and we're always going to need them”

“I think college in our education system is entirely backwards. You sit here and you go learn something and you learn for years and years and years, and then you're told to go do.”

“Really most of college is a signaling device to say that, Hey, you pass through these hurdles. And you jump through these hoops, and you made it there.”

“Probably would have stayed in college. I dropped out, ah, kind of wish I would have probably stuck with it a few more years, but yeah.”

“In most schools, by the way, there's no such thing anymore as students paying list tuition. Schools keep track of this thing called the discount rate, and basically most schools don't actually charge the list tuition price to almost any students, right?”

“Everybody growing up just said, go to college. Doesn't matter what it costs. Just get a degree. It doesn't matter what you study and you'll be successful. And I think my generation is now realizing like that's fundamentally untrue. It isn't only not good advic…”

“The thing that surprises me most about people coming out of school is how poorly school teaches people how to write and communicate actually. I read cover letters and whatnot, and I'm just surprised that, you know, you can graduate college and not really know …”

“The way I think about education spending over a lifetime today is kind of like there's an elephant inside a python, right, which is you spend a lot of money and then you get to College, right, where you have the five 29 plan, right, to help subsidize, right, t…”

“They did penetrate almost 80% of the colleges in 18 months.”

“I don't believe in the over obsession of where someone goes to school, that this, like, brand association of where people go to college or in education is that important. I think people get too wrapped up and obsessed with that, parents, kids, and I just don't…”

“Especially if you're in college, that is just the best place to meet potential co-founders”

“I've built ambassadors at various colleges. So I've worked with over 300 colleges.”

“And I hope you don't go to college and instead do things that are really exciting and adventurous with your life.”

“College is the biggest ripoff on the planet.”