The Ivy League is Overrated

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Brief Summary

The episode critiques elitism in education and advocates for hiring from diverse schools.

Key points

  • Rethinking Education. Challenging the notion that elite schools produce the best graduates.
  • Virginia Tech vs. Harvard. A surprising endorsement of Virginia Tech over Ivy League schools.

Transcript

I think what would be much more valuable than all of this is for companies to hire from a whole bunch of different schools than they do today and to break the back of this elitist culture we have around certain schools there's not necessarily an advantage for studying physics at any of these two schools it's not like one's teaching you that gravity goes up and the other teaches you that gravity goes down we have fallen to this trap of saying that these highly credentialed schools that cost 60 and 70 and $880,000 a year graduate the best kids and I don't think that that's true either today I just gave an offer to a guy that went to Virginia Tech and this

kid seems awesome to be honest I think schools like that are better I mean I think probably Virginia Tech is better than Harvard they're way better and the reason is because they're less infected with the whole woke Dei ideology that now pervades these like top schools so the students are more likely to learn something they're not the smartest kids they're not the hardest working kids so we should stop saying top schools these Ivy League schools are not the top schools

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