The Value of College Education

You don't need college to learn stuff, okay?

Everything is available basically for free.

You can learn anything you want for free.

It is not a question of learning.

There is a value that colleges have,

which is like, you know, seeing whether somebody's...

Can somebody work hard at something,

including a bunch of sort of annoying homework assignments,

and still do their homework assignments,

and kind of soldier through and get it done.

You know, that's like the main value of college.

And then also, you know,

you probably want to hang around with a bunch of people your own age for a while

instead of going right into the workforce.

So I think colleges are basically for fun

and to prove you can do your chores.

But they're not for learning.

But there is a requirement of evidence of exceptional ability.

Like, you just can't...

If you're trying to do something exceptional,

you must have evidence of exceptional ability.

I don't consider going to college evidence of exceptional ability.

In fact, ideally, you dropped out and did something.

I mean, obviously, you know,

we look at, like, you know,

Gates is a pretty smart guy. He dropped out.

Jobs is pretty smart. He dropped out.

You know, Larry Ellison, smart guy, he dropped out.

Like, obviously not needed.