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Stop Outsourcing Your Credibility by Michael Ellsberg
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Stop Outsourcing Your Credibility by Michael Ellsberg

Excellent video:

Michael Ellsberg - Young People! Stop Outsourcing Your Credibility to Colleges & Universities [7 min]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHVii8ku12E

Review of Ellsberg's "The Education of Millionaires" (includes interviews with successful college drop-outs)
http://occupystudentdebt.com/post/178429...-for-books
"Ellsberg says that the traditional picture of people dropping out of school, having no career options, and living in a garbage can simply isn’t true. And he backs this up by differentiating between dropping out of school and dropping out of learning."

"Ellsberg is adamant enough about this issue to print the following in full capital letters: “WHEN ARE WE GOING TO START GIVING OUR YOUNG PEOPLE BETTER CAREER ADVICE?” And my equally important question is, when are we going to start telling young people what to expect after college?"

College or not, at any age, key questions include: how to go about learning effectively, including motivation; the question of what should one know, how to go about meeting people and establishing relationships, how to find meaningful work situations that can build into something, how to make key life decisions, learn from past ones, and how to credential and market one's self in different respects. And... how to explore things to discover what one is good at. Thoughts?
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Stop Outsourcing Your Credibility by Michael Ellsberg

Hmm...will watch later. But the problem as of right now is that school-and-universities-has-usual have a monopoly on certification - how do we fix that?

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stupid article
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