Sam Parr: Taking $150K in debt for non-elite colleges is ridiculous
Sam Parr · You Have 70 Days to Win the Year · Oct 23, 2024 · at 24:59
Sam Parr debates the return on investment of higher education with Shaan Puri, arguing that most students should opt for trade or low-cost state schools.
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“I think that, like, these fancy schools, like what you went to, should be, like, designed for, like, the, Like the academic class and like the rest of us like plebs. Like I think I should have gone to like a trade school or a state school. I think I should have gone to like a 15,000 dollar a year university, Missouri and like explored versus going into debt of a 150 grand to go to like a non top university. I think that's ridiculous.”
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