What podcasters are saying about Education

Summary

In the past 30 days, 5 speakers on 4 finance podcasts discussed Education in 7 views. Chorus has followed Education since October 10, 2026.

Who talks about it most

• David Friedberg · 2
• David Sacks · 2
• Cliff Sosin · 1
• Patrick Harker · 1
• Ken Griffin · 1

The latest views

Newest first. Every quote is checked against the episode's transcript.

• Cliff Sosin · CAS Investment Partners

  Kids should learn foundational skills without models first, so they can direct models well later.

  Sosin argues that more intelligence and more crystallized knowledge make it easier to communicate with and direct a model, since you cannot ask a model to assume a stochastic process unless you know what one is. So he thinks children should spend substantial time separated from models, learning foundational skills such as multiplication that build on each other, so they can understand what the model is doing. He criticizes teachers who block AI for essays, arguing that students should be given harder, more ambitious work that uses models fully, then be made to justify and own the output.

  “And so increasingly, I'm of the view that we should spend a bunch of time with kids basically separated from these models,”at 58:40

  Invest Like The Best: Cliff Sosin - Owning the Complements to Intelligence - [Invest Like the Best, EP.497] · October 27, 2026

• Patrick Harker · The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

  Higher-ed mergers and closures are unprecedented; flagships will do okay, regional schools struggle.

  Harker says the Philadelphia Fed sees unprecedented merger activity and closures in higher education. He attributes this to two forces. One is the demographic cliff. The other is that international students are less likely to come to the US, and many smaller liberal arts colleges depended on them for enrollment. Closures hit communities where the college is the main employer. He expects the mega and flagship universities to do okay and niche liberal arts colleges to survive by offering something unique. Mid-tier state universities face consolidation, and this is already visible in Pennsylvania. He cites the Philadelphia Fed's database of economic impact from education and health institutions across 520 US regions.

  “What we're seeing right now is unprecedented. We are seeing merger and acquisition activity in higher education or simple closures.”at 10:27

  Macro Musings: Patrick Harker on Real-Time Payments and the Future of the Federal Reserve · October 26, 2026

• David Friedberg · The Production Board

  Winding down federal student loans over a decade would force colleges to cut tuition.

  He wants the federal student loan program wound down and existing student debt cancelled, possibly through a bankruptcy mechanism. He argues that removing federal lending would right-size institutions and their tuition costs, as colleges would have to fit to the market. He says this would take about ten years and needs a firm commitment over the next decade.

  “I think it has to happen with deleting the federal student loan program. What will happen then is you'll right size all the institutions and their tuition costs because then all the institutions will start to fit to the market. It'll take about ten years.”at 57:20

  All-In Podcast: AI Cyber Panic, Ken Griffin's Bubble Warning, The Fall of France? · October 23, 2026

• David Friedberg · The Production Board

  Ending federal student loans would deflate the higher-education system.

  Friedberg argues the federal student loan system props up higher-education prices. Removing federal student loans would deflate that part of the economy, one of several ways he suggests the US can resolve its debt problem.

  “you basically can deflate parts of the economy, like the education system, the higher education system by taking away federal student loans.”at 1:10:15

  All-In Podcast: AI Cyber Panic, Ken Griffin's Bubble Warning, The Fall of France? · October 23, 2026

• Ken Griffin · Citadel

  Broken US schools threaten long-run prosperity; Illinois has 53 schools with no student at grade level.

  Griffin argues the US cannot keep the prosperity of the last fifty years with broken schools. He cites Illinois, where two or three years ago 53 schools had no single child performing at grade level. He points to Success Academies in New York as a model that works.

  “We cannot have a country with broken schools and expect to have the prosperity we've enjoyed over the last fifty years.”at 38:46

  Bloomberg Talks: Citadel CEO Ken Griffin Talks AI Bubble, US Midterm Elections & France Protests · October 21, 2026

• David Sacks · Craft Ventures

  Government loan subsidies push college tuition far above inflation by distorting price signals.

  Sacks says subsidies create interest groups that never give up the subsidy, and they distort market signals and frequently drive prices up. His example is college tuition, which has grown far faster than inflation. He attributes much of that to the government paying for most tuition through loan programs. He implies the loans may be underwritten by the government, so the subsidy itself is inflating the cost it is meant to cover.

  “tuition has grown far faster than the rate of inflation. A big part of the reason for that is because the government is paying for most of the tuition through all these loan programs.”at 1:09:30

  All-In Podcast: Is Claude Conscious? Pope Rejects, Model Welfare Movement, OpenAI's Math Backlash, France Riots · October 10, 2026

• David Sacks · Craft Ventures

  Government tuition subsidies keep college prices rising faster than inflation, creating a catch-22 that makes reform hard.

  Sacks argues tuition rises far faster than inflation because the government pays for it, so the consumer never pushes back on price. Schools raise prices as far as they can while subsidies remain. Cutting the subsidy without first bringing tuition down would hurt students, so the spiral continues. Removing market forces makes inflation worse over time.

  “The reason why the price keeps going up far faster than rate of inflation is because the government is paying for it. And as long as the government is paying for it and not the consumer, you're gonna raise your prices as much as you can.”at 1:10:54

  All-In Podcast: Is Claude Conscious? Pope Rejects, Model Welfare Movement, OpenAI's Math Backlash, France Riots · October 10, 2026