• "So how much in per hour earnings over your career does a college degree have to generate in order to be worth it? About $1.75. So over the course of your career, if you make $13 an hour, on average when you would've otherwise made $11.25, college has paid for itself.
• And so most studies show that, on average, college is still very much worth it... assuming you go to a reasonably good, accredited university, there are two things that are true:
  • one - it is criminally overpriced
  • two - it is probably still worth it.
• My problem is that calculation assumes that human life is a purely economic phenomenon, which it isn't.
• It's been my experience that maximizing income is a hell of a lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your life both professionally and personally.
• When I was in college, I remember fearing that the dreary grind of adulthood would feature, like, infinitely more existential dread than frat parties had, but the opposite has been true for me. I'm much less likely to feel the gnawing fear of aimlessness and nihilism than I used to be, and that's party because education gave me job opportunities.
• But it's mostly because education gave me perspective and context whether you're studying electrical engineering or poetry, college is not finally about maximizing income, it's about becoming a better, and more informed observer of the universe. And for me, at least, that's what leads to a more fulfilling life.
• In a world where about half of humans live on less than $2,50 a day, the opportunity to learn and study in a formal, dedicated way is still a gift, even if it has become an expensive one."

- John Green