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Revision as of 10:40, 16 June 2016

Change Starts Within ~ 15 min

The Future of Higher Education & How Kids Are Getting Wise to Student Load Debt ~ 19 min

How Free Online Courses Are Changing Traditional Education ~ 11 min

TED: Bunker Roy, founder of Barefoot College ~ 19 min

Forget about college...that ship is going down! Exosphere and Exobase are programs to inspire entrepreneuralism through technical skill acquisition, real business practice, and deep philosophical and intellectual reflection. ~35 min

Designing a university for the new millennium ~ 19 min

4 steps to design your own education ~ 17 min

Word-class Self-education ~ 18 min

Articles

2016-06-15: Mike Rowe: Stop ‘Cherry-Picking’ One Form of Education
2015-08-05: 8 Reasons Why We Won’t Push College on Our Kids
2015-06-03: 32 Legitimate Ways to Make Money at Home
Billionaire Warns Of Massive Crash That Will Wipe Out America’s Colleges: “You’re Going To See A Repeat Of What We Saw In The Housing Market”
Leaving College For Good Was The Best Choice I Made. Here’s Why
Forbes: Jobs of the Future Don't Require a College Degree
Forbes article on Udacity which intends to create a master's degree for $100.
The Coming Twilight Of The Four-Year College
Need a Job? Invent It
Kids, go to college or you’ll die alone in misery
If money was no object what would you do?
Top universities want you to homeschool

Videos

Can College Hold You Back? - Tom Woods interview with Derek Magill
The End of School: Reclaiming Education from the Classroom - Tom Woods interview with Zachary Slayback
Camille Paglia: 'Universities Are an Absolute Wreck Right Now' - ReasonTV

Praxis

Spend a year working at an amazing company and get a rigorous education and professional development program. [1]

Tom Woods interviews founder of Praxis

Pocket College

247 lectures by Dr R.J. Rushdoony on Systematic Theology: Authority, Church, Covenant, Creation and Providence, Eschatology, Family, Salvation, Sin, The Land, The State, and Work. http://www.pocketcollege.com/index.htm

Free MIT Courses

MIT publishes virtually ALL of its course materials online for free. You can take hundreds of college course completely free, in your own time.

Programmers/Bitcoin

"Bitcoin as an industry is generating thousands of jobs and lots of start-ups that are doing very new and interesting things that have never been done before. And that means a lot to young people who are entering the workforce for the first time. That means that here are a set of skills that they can learn and gain from that will give them opportunities for employment...and that's really exciting. It's a bit like learning to develop an iOS application six or seven years ago or how to develop an HTML website 15 years ago. It's the kind of skills you can build and launch a career on.

— November 9, 2014: Andreas Anonopoulos describing the Master of Science in Digital Currency offered online to students worldwide by University of Nicosia in Cypress. Listen to entire interview.

Video: A Million Killer Apps: Part 1 - Bitcoin's Big Bang of Disruption -

Video: A Million Killer Apps: Part 2 - Blockchains & A Global Shared History

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 * 2016-06-15: [http://www.nationalreview.com/article/436628/mike-rowe-dirty-jobs Mike Rowe: Stop ‘Cherry-Picking’ One Form of Education]
 * 2015-08-05: [http://www.wakingtimes.com/2015/08/05/8-reasons-why-we-wont-push-college-on-our-kids/ 8 Reasons Why We Won’t Push College on Our Kids]
+* 2015-06-03: [http://www.thepennyhoarder.com/ways-to-make-money-at-home/ 32 Legitimate Ways to Make Money at Home]
 * [http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/billionaire-warns-of-massive-crash-that-will-wipe-out-americas-colleges-youre-going-to-see-a-repeat-of-what-we-saw-in-the-housing-market_12272014 Billionaire Warns Of Massive Crash That Will Wipe Out America’s Colleges: “You’re Going To See A Repeat Of What We Saw In The Housing Market”]
 * [http://www.collective-evolution.com/2014/07/01/this-is-what-happened-to-my-life-when-i-left-college-for-good/ Leaving College For Good Was The Best Choice I Made. Here’s Why]