Summary Of What's A College Education Really Worth? Not Enough

Naomi Schaefer Riley wrote about reasons why attending college are not as applicable as they may seem in her article, “What’s a College Education Really Worth? Not Enough.” She covered many aspects of the financial and educational college experience, especially negative aspects. She focussed on the story of twenty-four of the smartest potential college students, Mark Zuckerberg’s creation of Facebook, and how college and the worth of a college degree has changed and is still changing. Overall, Naomi claims that college is too expensive for what little students receive. However, I disagree with this viewpoint for various reasons. The first of her claims deals with when the co-founder of PayPal, Peter Thiel, convinced twenty-four of the brightest minds that were considering college to not attend college but rather accept $100,000 and join him in his Silicon Valley lab and work for him on scientific and technological innovations. This is a great example of what can happen to the best, but it is not a good example of college students as a whole. The author was using these twenty-four kids who were the best of the best as representative of all the students wanting to attend college. These were the twenty-four brightest
This example does have the issue of it being one project that got incredibly large incredibly fast. In the eleven years it has been publicly accessible, it spread to be used by more than two billion people, more than a fourth of the Earth’s population, and is worth billions of dollars. Riley says, “So yes, Zuckerberg was wasting his parent’s money and his own time. … Why not take a class on Dostoyevsky or the history of Christianity or astronomy or ancient history? You are surrounded by some of the most learned people in the world, and you are holed up in your dorm typing code.” when speaking about how Zuckerberg spent his