Average tuition for a year at a US private college is $35k. Nobody should pay that. Offering $140k for 1 year of regular time with any one of the best minds in your field of choice would be a strictly better use of your resources (and probably theirs, if they'd otherwise teach).
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This is similar to the
@bryan_caplan theory that college is mostly signalling, rather than the actual value of the education
I’ve read the book & I think you have to have your head pretty well buried to not agree with the broad strokes
