Mission:<\/p>\n
1. To change the notion that university is the only path to success.<\/p>\n
2. To prepare people for success in an ever changing world in which it is [virtually]<\/span> impossible\u00c2\u00a0 for educational intuitions to be relevant.<\/p>\n We believe that:<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 We pay too much for university and learn too little.[!]<\/span> <\/span> [<\/span>University makes students slog, wait in line, demonstrate fealty, and jump through pointless hoops on cue but this experience does not teach them critical thinking and problem solving skills. (Frequently bypassing these requirements does teach these skills.)]<\/span> Mission: 1. To change the notion that university is the only path to success. 2. To prepare people for success in an ever changing world in which it is [virtually] impossible\u00c2\u00a0 for educational intuitions to be relevant. We believe that: \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 We pay too much for university and learn too little.[!] [Every text book takes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncollege"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.abacus-es.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.abacus-es.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.abacus-es.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.abacus-es.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.abacus-es.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.abacus-es.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1069,"href":"http:\/\/www.abacus-es.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/1069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.abacus-es.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.abacus-es.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.abacus-es.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n[Every text book takes up to three years to come out.\u00c2\u00a0 Our world is moving too fast\u00c2\u00a0 for that process to provide current coverage. ]<\/span>
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 You can get an amazing education anywhere\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut to get it you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have to break some rules and piss off some people.[!]<\/span>
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 University is not inherently bad, but university isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the only path to success.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 You must get an excellent education to survive in a world where 50% of the population is under 30.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 [Subjects taught in ]<\/span>Traditional universities are often contrived, theoretical, and irrelevant [and are generally better at enforcing compliance and conformity than teaching scholarship or critical thinking]<\/span>.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Education must help narrow the opportunity gap.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 You can contribute to society without necessarily having a university degree\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbecoming the next Mark Zuckerberg or smoking pot in your parents\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 basement are not the only options.
\n[The technical and communications skills needed in business and society are not covered particularly well in college and may easily be acquired elsewhere.]<\/span>
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 University lacks academic rigor.\u00c2\u00a0 [This is far too broad a generalization.<\/span> Rigor as defined by academia exists only in academia — peer reviewed journals etc.\u00c2\u00a0 I would leave this one out. ]<\/span><\/p>\n
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 The skills required to succeed in today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s global economy are not taught in school.
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 If you want to gain these skills, you must hack your education. [And here’s how!]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"