College Alternatives

Articles

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
2017-12-08: The World Might Be Better Off Without College for Everyone
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
2016-02-27: Ernst & Young no longer Requires Degrees – No Evidence a Degree = Success
2016-00-00: Professionals are Just Now Discovering What Homeschoolers Have Known for Decades
2016-06-15: Mike Rowe: Stop ‘Cherry-Picking’ One Form of Education
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
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

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

Exosphere

Traditional education gives you the tools to conform to reality. Exosphere gives you the tools to transform it.

Lynda.com

Lynda.com - Online courses and certificates for the most in-demand cutting-edge software tools.

Videos

Podcasts

School Sucks Podcast 546 Dropping Out of College, Why and How (Derek Magill, Part One)

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

Resources

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

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