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MICKEY KAUS: WHAT IS JACOB WEISBERG THINKING? ?When I saw the subhed of Weisberg?s piece, I figure?

By Glenn Reynolds

MICKEY KAUS: WHAT IS JACOB WEISBERG THINKING? “When I saw the subhed of Weisberg’s piece, I figured Thiel must be promoting some vicious Darwinian scheme to get thousands of theoretically unqualified people to drop out of college. It turns out it’s a scholarship program that offers 20 awards to people under 20 so they can ’stop out’ of school to start businesses. Twenty. A number Weisberg conveniently omits! It’s hard to see how a program that only affects a maximum of 80 people (teams of 4 can apply) is going to undermine our humanistic system of higher education.”

Plus this: “Why be so certain about the wisdom of our current assembly-line meritocratic protocol where we load you up with a lifetime of learning at the beginning like a tank of gas?”

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on October 20, 2010 (boomark / email).