#awesome

Two years ago, PayPal founder and libertarian futurist Peter Thiel declared higher education “a bubble” [..] this Year’s Thiel Fellows Include A Fashion Designer, A Poet, And A Harvard Dropout. The 22 teens were awarded $100,000 each to quit school and start a business.

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Go Peter Thiel, WooHoo! :) Seriously - organized education, just as organized crime needs to be battled with at every turn. The old system fails to deliver quality or quantity -in the Web scale-, is too syncronized to a time, to a place which makes it almost useless in the post-industrial world where education and learning needs to be continuous.