Bell Curved
The idiotic world of higher education:
From the Ivys to the DeVry-vies.
Un blog de Andy Cohen. Est. 2010.
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If your degree was focused upon one particular area, don’t let that stop you moving in another direction. If college hasn’t worked out for you, don’t let that put you off…. If you spot an opportunity early on and are really excited by it, throw yourself into it with everything you have got. Be ambitious. There probably won’t be another time in your life when you have such freedom of opportunity. Grasp it with both hands.
Richard Branson’s advice to graduates, echoing Debbie Millman’s fantastic commencement address on courage and the creative life.
Pair with Don’t Go Back to School.
(via explore-blog)
(via explore-blog)
Student Fakes Kidnapping to Distract Parents From a Failing Grade
Aftab Aslam may have failed his Georgia Gwinnett College English class (twice), but he definitely earned an A in “Faking Your Own Kidnapping, Worrying the Hell Out of Your Parents, and Wasting Police Resources: 101”.
Popular Mechanics
1956 Vol. 105, No. 5
Yay or Nay: Should You Go to College?
Ahhhh education schmedication. Thats a word right?
Seth's Blog: Every day is an investment
You’re not lucky to have this job, they’re lucky to have you. Every day, you invest a little bit of yourself into your work, and one of the biggest choices available to you is where you’ll be making that investment.
That project that you’re working on, or that boss you report to… worth it?
Investing in the wrong place for a week or a month won’t kill you. But spending ten years contributing to something that you don’t care about, or working with someone who doesn’t care about you… you can do better.
You’re a ghost driving a meat coated skeleton made from stardust, what do you have to be scared of?
~ Porkbeard (via criminalwisdom)
npr:
In Cisco’s Classroom Of The Future, Your Professor Is Just An Illusion
New telepresence software could let you take a class from anywhere and appear as if you’re in the classroom.
Full Story: FastCoExist
Cool. Yet, is it really cool? —Wright
Laptop U
Has the future of college moved online?
These 2 Maps About Student Loans Explode One of the Biggest Myths About Student Loans
The media fixates on the overall size of student debt. But where you go to school, whether you graduate, and what kind of job you get later may matter much more.
Read more. [Images: FRBNY Consumer Credit Panel]
Don’t Go Back to School: A Handbook for Learning Anything
Kio Stark
A wonderful manifesto for fueling the internal engine of lifelong learning
When you step away from the prepackaged structure of traditional education, you’ll discover that there are many more ways to learn outside school than within.
