{"id":2131,"date":"2025-11-02T18:16:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T23:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2025-11-05T09:33:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T14:33:37","slug":"is-college-old-school-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/2025\/11\/02\/is-college-old-school-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Is college old school now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is interesting: Palantir has launched a &#8220;Meritocracy Fellowship&#8221; to hire high-achieving high school graduates right out of school, offering a paid internship with a chance at full-time employment. The company presents this as an alternative to college.<\/p>\n<p>This is a very limited, transactional view of college. College is more than just training for employment; it is where students gain knowledge and broaden their horizons, learning how to think and ask questions, in addition to acquiring practical skills. I doubt a four-week history seminar will make up for all that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/palantir-thinks-college-might-be-a-waste-so-its-hiring-high-school-grads-aed267d5\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is interesting: Palantir has launched a &#8220;Meritocracy Fellowship&#8221; to hire high-achieving high school graduates right out of school, offering a paid internship with a chance at full-time employment. The company presents this as an alternative to college. This is a very limited, transactional view of college. College is more than just training for employment; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2132,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions\/2132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ozer.gt\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}