Do Too Many Kids Go To College?

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🗓️ 21 November 2011

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Getting a college degree is often touted as a way to increase your income and your ability to compete in the job market. But are too many unprepared students being pushed into taking on large amounts of debt? A team of experts faces off in the latest Intelligence Squared U.S. debate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	True or false, too many kids go to college.
0:05.0	That's what we're here to debate.
0:06.0	Another verbal joust from Intelligent Squared US.
0:09.0	I'm John Donovan from ABC News.
0:11.0	We are at venue 610 at the Spurder Center in Chicago.
0:14.0	Too many kids go to college.
0:17.0	Two teams will argue that proposition from opposite sides for it and against it.
0:22.0	All of our debaters come to this from different perspectives.
0:25.0	All of them are trying to win you over because you, our live audience,
0:29.0	will act as the judges and only one side will win.
0:33.0	So let's meet our panelists of debaters.
0:35.0	The motion being too many kids go to college.
0:38.0	The team arguing for the motion include tech entrepreneur, investor,
0:42.0	and philanthropist PayPal co-founder Peter Teal.
0:45.0	His teammate is a political scientist who sees the Bachelor of Arts degree
0:52.0	as a source of class division.
0:54.0	American Enterprise Institute scholar Charles Murray.
0:58.0	Opposing them at the facing table and arguing that it's not true
1:03.0	that too many kids go to college.
1:05.0	One of Northwestern University's most transformative leaders,
1:08.0	President Emeritus Henry Beenan.
1:11.0	And joining him and entrepreneur turned academic.
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