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‘I’ve spent three years writing about how graduate school is a waste of time and money…’

May 11, 2011 By Kathy Shaidle

Penelope Trunk writes:

(yes, business school and law school too).

So now when radio and TV producers need someone to bitch about graduate school, they call me.

Here I am on NPR today. I don’t usually post my interviews, but this one is notable because I completely lost patience for people still defending grad school. It’s so clear, even to defenders of grad school, that grad school is a bad financial decision, that this guy has resorted to saying that you need to go to grad school to be a good person. Of course, I went nuts on him.

I think the thing that is pushing me over the edge with graduate school is that people who are thinking straight about schooling are not even considering graduate school. These people are debating if college is a rip off (here’s a great discussion in New York magazine with James Altucher, a venture capitalist in NYC) And people are even debating if high school is useless (here’s a great blog by Lisa Nielsen who is with the NYC Department of Education). And anyway, I’m losing interest in the debate about grad school because I’m convinced that the future belongs to home schoolers because they are self-learners.

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