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    1. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 25 Mar 2019

      Universities are backing themselves into a dangerous corner by becoming more expensive at the same time they're becoming less necessary.

      239 replies 3,825 retweets 12,307 likes
    2. David desJardins‏ @David_desJ 25 Mar 2019
      Replying to @paulg

      Should we focus on the cost of what they provide or on the price they charge for it? Cost of providing an MIT undergraduate education is around $90k/year, average price they charge is around $20k/year.

      1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
    3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 25 Mar 2019
      Replying to @David_desJ

      I believe universities' costs have grown significantly faster than inflation, so that's one source of trouble. Another is that a lot of the courses are a waste of time. (And by that I mean intellectually, not just in the narrow sense of teaching marketable skills.)

      4 replies 3 retweets 30 likes
    4. David desJardins‏ @David_desJ 25 Mar 2019
      Replying to @paulg

      Universities' costs grow faster than inflation because of Baumol's law, the same reason that health care costs grow faster than inflation and all services that require skilled workers. And I can honestly say I didn't take a single class at MIT that was a waste of time.

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    5. David desJardins‏ @David_desJ 25 Mar 2019
      Replying to @David_desJ @paulg

      (There are a few classes I didn't like and didn't get as much out of, including organic chemistry, intro to microeconomics, and intro to linguistics. But in all of those cases I'm still really glad I took one class.)

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    6. David desJardins‏ @David_desJ 25 Mar 2019
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      What fraction of the courses you took at Cornell, Harvard, RISD, and Accademia di Belle Arti were a waste of time?

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      Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 26 Mar 2019
      Replying to @David_desJ

      It's been a while, but maybe 4/5.

      4:11 AM - 26 Mar 2019
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        2. David desJardins‏ @David_desJ 26 Mar 2019
          Replying to @paulg

          80% of your classes intellectually a waste of time?? Did you just pick bad classes? I always took extra classes because there was so much to learn. Quantum physics wasn't required or useful, but how can it be "waste of time"? I couldn't have learned the subject better on my own.

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        3. Paul Graham‏Verified account @paulg 26 Mar 2019
          Replying to @David_desJ

          Outside of math and the hard sciences, there are a lot of classes that are just the professor talking about their pet topic, and it's impossible as an undergrad to tell which of these are good.

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