In a recent interview, Mark Zuckerberg said that he was not sure if colleges are preparing students enough for the modern labor market.
“I'm not sure if the college is preparing people like the jobs they need today,” Zuckerberg said in an interview on Monday to Theo von. “I think there is a big problem with it, and like all student debt problems are like really big problems.”
Meta CEO said that the college could be a “social experience” for students, as many leave home for the first time. However, it is up to some people to decide whether to go to debt.
“That would be one thing if it was just like a social experience,” he said. “If it does not prepare you for the work you need and start in this big hole, then I think it's not good. The fact that I think it has to be taken into account and people have to be like that.”
According to Collegeboard, the loan debt of students who graduated from 2022 to 23 was $ 29.3,000 per borrower. This year, Gen Z ended redundancies in the technical and government sector in the middle of the heavy labor market.
One 2024 study Deloitte showed that a third of the Gen Z and Millennials give up higher education due to cost and career choices that do not require degrees.
20-year-old Mark Zuckerberg in Eliot's House in Harvard campus. Rick Friedman/Corbis Getty through pictures
“It's kind of a taboo thing to say, you may not have to go to university because there are many jobs that do not require it,” Zuckerberg said. “But I think people will probably come a little more to this opinion than we may -like 10 years ago.”
Zuckerberg fell out of Harvard in 2005, while the graduate student focused on growing Facebook. Twelve years later, he received an audience.
The CEO said in an interview that he met many college people, “who are really important in my life,” including his wife Priscilla Chan, Facebook co -workers and people who are still close friends.
“It was good, I have a feeling that you need a while away from home before you want to go completely,” he said at boarding school and college.
When asked if students should learn artificial intelligence in secondary or secondary school, Zuckerberg replied that technology changes a lot and that he did not use the same skills he learned at the age of 15. However, he added that he could be a value in “understanding technology and understanding it”.
Zuckerberg said the existence of good mentors or teachers is also valuable, regardless of the class.
“When I went to boarding school, I really liked studying Latin and Greece, and it's not one that is not useful for any practical thing,” he said, “but it's fun.”
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