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PragerU: Five-Minute Videos

Does College = Success?

PragerU: Five-Minute Videos

PragerU

Non-profit, Self-improvement, Education, Business, History

4.76.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 August 2020

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy Boreing, co-founder of The Daily Wire, doesn’t have a college degree. Neither do Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, or a host of other innovators who have shaped our contemporary world. Which begs an important question: Is a college degree really necessary for success?

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0:00.0

Maybe the dumbest thing you can do is go to the place that's supposed to make you smart.

0:04.5

That would be college.

0:06.1

Now, perhaps I'm biased.

0:07.8

I don't have a college degree, although I employ a lot of people who do,

0:11.6

and from some of the most prestigious universities in the country.

0:14.4

I made a conscious choice.

0:16.4

I had clear career ambitions, and I didn't see how a college degree was going to get me there.

0:21.2

In retrospect, I'm confident I made the right decision.

0:24.8

I'm the co-founder and co-CEO of a company called The Daily Wire.

0:28.9

We publish news and commentary from a conservative point of view.

0:32.5

We have well over 100 employees and an audience which numbers in the millions every single day.

0:38.4

Now, I don't have a problem if you go to college.

0:41.2

It's a free country. Do what you want.

0:43.2

But the idea that somehow college is the great pathway to success and fulfillment

0:48.1

that I don't buy.

0:49.9

The left takes a different view.

0:51.9

They are obsessed with higher education.

0:54.1

To them, it's a human right, and they want it to be free, which just means paid for by

0:58.6

people like me, for anyone who's 18 and can breathe.

1:02.7

That makes perfect sense from their point of view.

1:05.0

One, the idea is a big winner among young people, a critical voting block.

1:09.3

Who doesn't want something for nothing, especially something that costs more than a Ferrari?

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