Yes, It's Okay To Drop Out Of College

Slate's Jacob Weisberg is outraged about Peter Thiel's latest philanthropic venture: $100,000 grants to young people who want to start a company instead of going to -- or continuing -- college.

Jacob says this program is goading students into "halting their intellectual development around the onset of adulthood, maintaining a narrow-minded focus on getting rich as young as possible, and thereby avoid[ing] the siren lure of helping others or contributing to the advances in basic science that have made the great tech fortunes possible... This threatens to turn the risk-taking startup model into a white boy's version of the NBA, diverting a generation of young people from the love of knowledge for its own sake and respect for middle-class values."