Peter Thiel

Valuing Education

The Scene  |  The University   |   Jason Tseng  |   June 18, 2012, 5:15 pm

Recently, the issue of student debt has once again come back to the forefront of public discourse.  The New York Times did a fairly lengthy cover story on it.  A chorus of commentators, including notable critic Mark Cuban, a media and tech mogul, has been even more vocal in comparing higher education to the last housing bubble. In some ways, this debate has been smoldering for the past 3 years about the true value of higher education. [...]