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New York Times - The Choice Blog

February 2, 2012

Is college worth it? Recently some strenuous arguments have been leveled against the value of a college degree. For more insight into those arguments, we turned to Dale J. Stephens, 20, the founder of UnCollege, which urges students to "hack their education" by finding their own pathways to success. Mr. Stephens, 20, is a Thiel fellow who spent his middle and high school years "unschooling," and then left college after a brief time there. We asked Mr. Stephens for his responses to the five main arguments most often given for going to college. Here's what he had to say.

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