Tim Dillon: Harvard has been "captured in a quasi-religious cult of insanity"
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Brief Summary
The episode critiques Harvard and U.S. education for discrimination and financial practices, questioning the value of elite institutions.
Key points
- Discrimination in Education. Harvard's actions have made discrimination fashionable across schools.
- Embarrassment in Higher Education. The current state of higher education is a source of embarrassment.
- Taxation of Educational Institutions. Should wealthy institutions like Harvard pay taxes on their income?
Transcript
Harvard. Are we selling that to China? I'm for that. China's too smart to buy Harvard. With 20 plus years of discrimination, what Harvard did was made it fashionable for other schools to discriminate. It doesn't just touch the universities. It starts to touch the high schools and the middle schools. Where we live, we had some morons at the board of education decide to take away AP calculus and AP math because it made people feel bad. It's absolutely ridiculous. The word is embarrassment. It is impossible to look at higher education in America right now and not be embarrassed. These should be
the shining example of, as Shmath was saying, institutions that prepare people for the real world. But what they really are, they've all been captured in this quasi religious cult of insanity. I think if these institutions are going to follow that path, they're going to have to live and die on their own. They're not going to be able to be taxpayer, subsidized, and funded. I don't know why an institution that has 53 billion of capital and is making probably four or five billion a year shouldn't pay taxes on that income. The majority of the capital is not being used to educate students. The majority of the capital is being used to reinvest to make new
