I failed.
I dropped off my kid at college the other day. I didn’t want her to go to college.
In 2005 or 2006 I wrote a column in The Financial Times that nobody should go to college anymore. I then wrote a book, “40 Alternatives to College”.
For a long time that book was the #1 seller on Amazon in the category of…”College”.
A lot of people were upset at me about this. Everyone had an argument why college was a good thing and that kids should go.
Then people said to me, “Well you went to college so now you are trying to keep people beneath you by not having them go to college.”
And one person threatened to kill me. When I tracked him down it turned out he was a senior at Brown University. HIgher education.
And other people who had spent a lot of money on college stopped returning my calls because I was calling into question the decisions they had made for themselves their entire life.