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How a Billionaire’s Fellowship Spread Skepticism About College’s Value

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Thiel had long been looking for a way to blow up higher education. Thiel was trying to change the public conversation about higher education, and at the time, 13 years ago, even practices like gap years were pretty uncommon. In fact, these days skepticism of higher education is rising. He was 19 years old at the time.

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