Do You Really Need College to Succeed?
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Kirk
4.6 • 65.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Is college still the ticket to success or one of the biggest scams being sold to young people today? From skyrocketing tuition to questionable career outcomes, this episode compiles Charlie’s best arguments and exchanges, challenging the idea that college is the only path forward for American young people.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Charlie Kirk. |
| 0:04.6 | I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country fighting for the future of our republic. |
| 0:11.0 | My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. |
| 0:14.0 | If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable. |
| 0:20.0 | But if the most important thing is doing good, you will end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You got to stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start a turning point USA College Chapter. Go start a turning point. You would say high school chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist. |
| 0:39.0 | I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade. |
| 0:41.2 | Most important decision I ever made in my life, and I encourage you to do the same. |
| 0:45.2 | Here I am. |
| 0:46.1 | Lord, use me. |
| 0:48.1 | Buckle up, everybody. |
| 0:49.4 | Here we go. |
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| 1:16.9 | I'm going to keep it short and sweet. |
| 1:18.7 | I'm just curious about your stance on college as a scam because I feel like according to the Hamilton |
| 1:23.6 | Institute, people who get bachelor degrees over a total lifetime earnings |
| 1:28.2 | earn over $1 million more than those who don't. And also, I feel like college is an important place for people to like go, learn valuable life lessons. And also, it's good to have like a balanced society because then you're going to get artists, you're also going to get architectures, you're going to get engineers, you're going to get all sorts of different people that we need in society because like what's the point in living if we don't have writers or artists |
| 1:47.1 | you know so that's just want to get your take on that. The question is, do the best writers learn to write in college? Probably not. No. The best writers are gifted writing and they learn to write by writing. And I would just argue that this kind of holistic view you get, for example, what are you studying? |
| 2:01.5 | Can I ask? |
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