Merryn Somerset Webb

Kids going to university these days.

We talk about this a lot on the podcast because of the extraordinary cost of student loans and the handicap that gives you once you leave, effectively paying nine percentage points of extra income tax every year, etc.

And the question now is, are you learning anything valuable at university?

And I hear more and more from students that their exams are at home, open book, 24 hours, etc.

And a lot of them will then use AI for that, I'm sure, which sounds like it makes the entire university experience not just pointless, but worse than pointless.

So it's only worth going at all if you engage with your learning in the way that we've just discussed.

So for an awful lot of people, this may be a pointless expense.

Come out with your worthless 2-1.

um but i do i do think that you know you have to learn how to think fundamentally to be employable you have to be able to think for yourself and that's what you need to go to university to learn to do okay there we go there's your takeaway everyone keep learning to think for yourself tom thank you so much that was absolutely absolutely fascinating and just to repeat to everybody we will put the link in the show notes so you can go and read this for yourself that's really interesting tom thank you thanks for having me

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