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Resources

Saylor Academy - FREE - Earn college credits online
Linked-In Learning - Formerly Linda.com
Accredited Schools Online
Four books covering alternatives to college
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.
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.
Deschool Yourself - Eight part audio production on healing the 15,000 hour infliction of public school
Google Digital Garage
Google Training Tools
The Open University
Khan Academy
Udemy Online Courses
Class Central
EdX Online Learning
Academic Earth
Praxis - Spend a year working at an amazing company and get a rigorous education and professional development program.
1517 Fund - We back dropouts, renegade students & sci-fi scientists at the earliest stages of their companies.

Articles

2020

2019

2018

2018-10-31 The future of work won't be about college degrees, it will be about job skills
2018-10-29 Generation Z Is Choosing Trade School over College
2018-10-18 5 Lucrative Jobs That Don’t Require a College Degree
2018-08-16 Google, Apple and 13 other companies that no longer require employees to have a college degree
2018-04-30 Offended Woman Says Mike Rowe's 'Hard Work' Ethic Belittles Higher Education. Here's His Biting Response.
2018-04-25 High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads Line Up For University
2018-03-14 Marvel at Tiny, Perfect Staircases Made by a Secret Society of French Woodworkers
2018-02-02 Let’s quit brainwashing kids that it’s a college degree or nothing
2018-01-16 The Case Against College

2017

2017-12-08 The World Might Be Better Off Without College for Everyone
2017-11-25 This is What Will Replace K-12 Schools and Colleges
2017-11-14 College/Uni is NOT Higher Ed
2017-11-13 Education’s Future: What Will Replace K-12 and College?
2017-09-05: Freedom from mind-controlled education
2017-08-29 After decades of pushing bachelor’s degrees, U.S. needs more tradespeople
2017-08-24 Slumping College Enrollment Signals Americans Are No Longer Buying The College Lie
2017-06-14 Four Reasons Why College Degrees Are Becoming Useless
2017-05-30 Why Valedictorians Rarely Become Rich and Famous -- and the Average Millionaire's College GPA is 2.9

2016

2015

2015-10-15 Your Social Security Will Be Seized If You Owe Student Loans
2015-09-01 Why We Desperately Need To Bring Back Vocational Training In Schools
2015-06-03 32 Legitimate Ways to Make Money at Home

2014-07-24 10 Reasons Why College Should be Abolished

2012-02-27 8 Reasons Why We Won’t Push College on Our Kids
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

Praxis

Praxis - Spend a year working at an amazing company and get a rigorous education and professional development program.

Derek Magill is an entrepreneur, lecturer, and Marketing Director of Praxis. He calls on people to exit politics and create alternatives.

Three Issues with College | Defining Randomness

Tucker Carlson talks with Isaac Morehouse of Praxis

Podcasts about Praxis

Tom Woods interviews founder of Praxis Youtube
Tom Woods interviews Derek Magill of Praxis: Can College Hold You Back? Youtube
Tom Woods interviews Zachary Slayback: The End of School: Reclaiming Education from the Classroom Youtube

Videos

Podcasts

Part 2 - Building Your Own Career

Tom Woods 1094: The Case Against Education
Tom Woods 1050: How State and Society Invented Adolescence and Screwed Up Young People
School Sucks Podcast 499: Successful Dropout: With Kylon Gienger - Part 1

Part 2

School Sucks Podcast 506: Emily Hirsh: Financial Freedom at 22 Instead of College

Images

Alternative Viewpoints on College

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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+== Resources ==
+* [https://www.saylor.org/ Saylor Academy] - FREE - Earn college credits online
+* [https://www.linkedin.com/learning/?trk=lynda_redirect_learning Linked-In Learning] - Formerly Linda.com
+* [https://www.accreditedschoolsonline.org Accredited Schools Online]
+* [http://schoolsucksproject.com/resources/collegeun-college/ Four books covering alternatives to college]
+* [http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/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.
+* [http://www.pocketcollege.com/index.htm 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://deschoolyourself.com/ Deschool Yourself] - Eight part audio production on healing the 15,000 hour infliction of public school
+* [https://skillshop.exceedlms.com/student/catalog/list?category_ids=7879-google-digital-garage Google Digital Garage]
+* [https://grow.google/intl/uk/courses-and-tools/ Google Training Tools]
+* [https://www.open.ac.uk/ The Open University]
+* [https://www.khanacademy.org Khan Academy]
+* [https://www.udemy.com/ Udemy Online Courses]
+* [https://www.classcentral.com/ Class Central]
+* [https://www.edx.org/ EdX Online Learning]
+* [https://academicearth.org/ Academic Earth]
+* [http://www.discoverpraxis.com/ Praxis] - Spend a year working at an amazing company and get a rigorous education and professional development program.
+* [https://www.1517fund.com/ 1517 Fund] - We back dropouts, renegade students & sci-fi scientists at the earliest stages of their companies.
 == Articles ==
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 * Tom Woods interviews Derek Magill of Praxis: Can College Hold You Back? [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ttyqrApQ1g Youtube]
 * Tom Woods interviews Zachary Slayback: The End of School: Reclaiming Education from the Classroom [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3a0woqJIwE Youtube]
-==Breakaway Learning==
-[https://schoolsucksproject.com/breakaway-learning-a-new-solution-for-self-directed-teens/ Tremendous interview] with retired World Bank development economist and home-schooling mom, Colleen Mascenik, creator of [https://breakawaylearning.org/ Breakaway Learning], a computerized program designed to help teens build customized learning plans around the subjects and issues that interest them.
-==Saylor Academy==
-[https://www.saylor.org/ saylor.com - Learn new skills, earn credit toward a degree, or advance your career at your own pace.]
-==Exosphere==
-Traditional education gives you the tools to conform to reality. '''[https://exosphe.re/ Exosphere]''' gives you the tools to transform it.
-==Lynda.com==
-[https://www.lynda.com/ Lynda.com] - Online courses and certificates for the most in-demand cutting-edge software tools.
 == Videos ==
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 == Podcasts ==
+* Tom Woods 2446: [https://tomwoods.com/ep-2446-fewer-phds-more-brilliant-dropouts-please/ Fewer PhDs, More Brilliant Dropouts, Please]
 * [https://schoolsucksproject.com/breakaway-learning-a-new-solution-for-self-directed-teens/ Retired World Bank development economist and home-schooling mom, Colleen Mascenik, addresses the failure of both public education and college in the new world economy]
 * School Sucks Podcast 546 [http://schoolsucksproject.com/podcast-546-dropping-college-derek-magill-part-one/ Dropping Out of College, Why and How (Derek Magill, Part One)]
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 :* [http://schoolsucksproject.com/podcast-503-successful-dropout-kylon-gienger-part-2-2/ Part 2]
 * School Sucks Podcast 506: [http://schoolsucksproject.com/podcast-506-emily-hirsh-financial-freedom-22-instead-college-degree/ Emily Hirsh: Financial Freedom at 22 Instead of College]
-== Resources ==
-* [https://www.accreditedschoolsonline.org Accredited Schools Online]
-* [https://www.saylor.org/ FREE - Earn college credits online]
-* [http://schoolsucksproject.com/resources/collegeun-college/ Four books covering alternatives to college]
-* [http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/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.
-* [http://www.pocketcollege.com/index.htm 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://deschoolyourself.com/ Deschool Yourself] - Eight part audio production on healing the 15,000 hour infliction of public school
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