100K to Avoid College for Two Years

Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal, has launched a fellowship to award $100,000 to 24 people who will decide not to attend college for two years and spend that time developing business concepts. This, Roger Kimball writes, “is just the latest sign that the edifice of higher education is looking more and more like the House of Usher.”

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