Jordan Peterson x Nelk Boys | Ep. 136

One of the strange things about modern universities is they still suffer from the delusion that university education is for people from 18 to 22 years of age, and there's just absolutely no reason why that should be the case.

For a long time, when you went to university, essentially what you were doing was increasing the value of your future earnings. Well, the university's basically figured out how to capture the future earnings of their students by ramping up the tuition costs.

Universities are so captured ideologically that it's a scandal. There are no conservatives at all in universities.

It's definitely the case around the world that if you can shake the shackles of vengeful communism that people everywhere can raise their standard of living incredibly quickly.

Once you're lecturing to 100 people, you might as well be lecturing to 10,000, right? The personal contact part of it is gone.

I would say at the typical large state school, 10% of the courses are excellent, if that.

The typical family fortune lasts about three generations, and the typical Fortune 500 company about 30 years ... It's hard for a company to stay on the cutting edge and current.

As a company gets bigger and bigger, its lifespan starts to shrink—because it just can't be dynamic and mobile.