<p>I finally got around to reading the article (the paper version was laying round our house) and have a few issues:</p>
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<li><p>While the entrepreneurs mentioned in the article did have positive outcomes, how many people who have dropped out can claim similar results? Those company founders are famous because they were smart and driven (and more than a little lucky), not because they dropped out.</p></li>
<li><p>One part I totally agreed with was Jacob Weisberg’s (Slate) point that Thiel’s idea could be “diverting a generation of young people from the love of knowledge for its own sake”.</p></li>
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