[petegrif]

If we set aside for a moment the worthy and edifying nature of education and focus on today's cost Thiel has a legitimate point. In a world in which employment opportunities are shrinking taking on a huge amount of debt for a qualification which apparently doesn't afford job prospects and a salary which are in line with such debt is a widespread and unsustainable problem. And this is a problem which is becoming acute. Education costs continue to rise even as economic prospects become more precarious. Those of us who live in the US cannot count on continued economic global dominance to underwrite domestic full employment. This is a huge change we are barely starting to get our heads around.