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I’m an optimist about higher education

A rough few years for colleges’ business model is going to make things better than ever

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Matthew Yglesias
Mar 28, 2022
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Sam Altman from OpenAI recently did a thread about how “US college education is nearer to collapsing than it appears.”

I have no idea how close to collapsing people think American higher education is, so it’s difficult for me to offer a clear view on that. But I think the whole thread is emblematic of a tendency among successful technology executives to …

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