<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">The mean household assets of the 1% exceeds $10 million. My wife and her brother both graduated from Harvard. Their parents paid for their expenses out-of-pocket. My in-laws were nowhere near the 1%. My FIL was an attorney and a member of Governor Kerner's Human Rights Commission. My wife's mother was a freelance writer who had published a couple of books and many articles in popular magazines. Both my wife and my brother-in-law received excellent educations. Yes, Nick, they were well-educated before they got to Harvard.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Frank<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto">---<br>Frank C. Wimberly<br>140 Calle Ojo Feliz, <br>Santa Fe, NM 87505<br><br>505 670-9918<br>Santa Fe, NM</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, May 29, 2020, 9:08 AM Prof David West <<a href="mailto:profwest@fastmail.fm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">profwest@fastmail.fm</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Scott Galloway (professor at Stern School of business and supposed authority) on universities post COVID.<br>
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Fifty percent of the investment in prestige university education is for 'certification' — degree that signals your lifetime earnings. The Harvard brand is strong enough that students will accept an inferior educational experience. The fifty biggest university brands, Harvard, Stanford, etc, will partner with tech giants like Apple or Facebook to create a hybrid university, most others will hollow out and die like the large department store chains. Dorm life and in-person experience will be reserved for children of the 1%.<br>
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Pretty bleak and a commentary on previous FRIAM conversations about education and elite universities.<br>
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davew<br>
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