Hacking Your Education: Ditch the Lectures, Save Tens of Thousands, and Learn More Than Your Peers Ever Will Dale J. StephensStephens (founder of UnCollege) lays out his manifesto on why college isn’t the best option for most people and instead offers a new template on how to learn, grow, and find gainful employment.
Stephens was an unschooler and carries that mentality into higher education.
It’s a compelling case-- basically college is crazy expensive and the higher earnings degree holders used to see are shrinking. When you look at how much money you had to put into college in the first place-- it’s not necessarily at great ROI.
In the words of Good Will Hunting (and this quotation opens the book) “You wasted $150000 on an education for $1.50 in late fees at the library?”
Now, personally, I would have been a horrible uncollege student. I didn’t have the personal drive necessary to be successful at it.
But one thing I love about this book is it’s not just for college-- Stephen’s plan for life-long learning is great for learning at any point in your life--high school, college, post-college. He has a lot of really useful exercises to get you started and great ideas to get up and go.
It’s an quick and easy read and a very interesting look at education and how we can, and need to, make it work for us.
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I love that scene from Good Will Hunting, although it can't top the "Do you like apples scene?" Thanks for joining in today's Nonfiction Monday roundup.
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