Investment expert and entrepreneur Peter Thiel has become famous for his fellowship program that requires students to drop out of college. But now that Thiel will teach a course at Stanford, some see a double standard:
Some at Stanford question the idea of having as an instructor someone who questions the rationale behind college. Vivek Wadhwa, a fellow at Stanford’s Rock Center of Corporate Governance, said, “It’s hypocritical, but I’m not surprised…. The same people who go around bashing education are the most educated. What’s he going to do? Tell students, ‘When you graduate from my class, drop out right after that?’ ”
That may just be correct. Thiel, through a spokesman, told the news service of his course: “If I do my job right, this is the last class you’ll ever have to take.”
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