Peter Thiel School Quotations

When I was starting out, I followed along the path that seemed to be marked out for me - from high school to college to law school to professional life.

The idea of becoming an entrepreneur is something that is not taught very well in school and is something that people should try to do earlier on.

But the indeterminate future is somehow one in which probability and statistics are the dominant modality for making sense of the world. Bell curves and random walks define what the future is going to look like. The standard pedagogical argument is that high schools should get rid of calculus and replace it with statistics, which is really important and actually useful. There has been a powerful shift toward the idea that statistical ways of thinking are going to drive the future.

If they don't go to law school, bright college graduates head to Wall Street precisely because they have no real plan for their careers.

Higher education is the place where people who had big plans in high school get stuck in fierce rivalries with equally smart peers over conventional careers like management consulting and investment banking. For the privilege of being turned into conformists, students (or their families) pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in skyrocketing tuition that continues to outpace inflation. Why are we doing this to ourselves?

Of the six people who started PayPal, four had built bombs in high school.