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What is the point of a university if it not to provide education that could benefit wide areas of the human experience?

That's not what he is arguing, though, is it?

Is founding a company not a thing some humans experience?

He argues for lowering experience of everyone except founders, so that founders dont have more free time and dont have to learn what university teaches.

It is favoring 1 group, not wide areas of the human experience.

It doesn't sound like he's arguing for something different than a lot of movements in education like Waldorf schools, the Nueva School, progressive liberal arts colleges, or how a lot of graduate schools work.

That school should be a support structure for self directed exploration rather than rigidity.

How is encouraging that unique to startup founders?

You mentioned, emphasis mine:

> benefit wide areas of the human experience

So no, I don't think founding companies has much to do with the wide human experience. It's actually a pretty rare thing. And I argue that most startup founders are not concerned with the human experience and are just focused on what the exit looks like.

So a university should never teach a class unless at least 95% of its students would benefit from it? Yes, the one thing doesn't necessarily benefit everyone, but a university offers wide choices of interests.

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