It’s hard to say when I first read or heard about entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel, but it was when he went public with his contrarian views on education that I most eagerly began reading anything by him, or about him. Quite unlike other wildly successful billionaires prone to promote the obnoxious fiction that says access to education is what explains differences in individual achievement, Thiel was willing to say that education is arguably a barrier to success.
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