Thread: The Game of School

You forgot "*Yawn*"

Phillip

College isn't necessary unless you have a certain career in mind. You honestly can learn pretty much whatever you want on the internet these days... and I'm sure some day that will qualify as "Life Experience " ;)

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I've neither heard of this before or agree with the premise except on a very limited scale.

1. Exceptionally intelligent people will succeed regardless of degree. This is not an emergent property of uncollege and we don't need uncollege for exceptional intelligence.

2. There are plenty of people who don't go to college now by their own choice or lack of interest. There's no need to advertise this approach for people who don't care.

3. The people who are going to be viewing this site and thinking hard about the premise are those who are moderately intelligent and would benefit most from the credential. In this case, paying attention to this site will not increase their intellect and may actually hurt their chances.

4. The site is developed by people who were home schooled and went on to structured institutions of learning because the added attention given them likely gave them an advantage when taking standardized tests. Unfortunately that advantage is offset by the home schooled child's lack of experience with formal structure in learning required to scale to a large number of students.

So uncollege is likely best for people who have had the advantages of home schooling and the desire to keep that freedom of structure for a significant period of time. Entrepreneurial jobs work that way. Most others don't.

So set up a blog about uncollege and get traffic by presenting an argument that will resonate to the common person who is in that moderate intellect range (tuition). When traffic goes up, start monetizing the site by offering consulting services and coaching to "uncollege" yourself. (which ironically is one of the options on the main nav).

What you're seeing on this site is a smooth scam aimed at people that don't have the advantages these kids had and a godsend to those that were brought up similarly. Unless you're in a very specific niche, you're still going to lose money here. This opinion is not reflective of my thoughts on the founder of the site. He's motivated, he wants to succeed in a real way because he's figured out how to hack the education he has. When he's 40, he'll likely be a successful entrepreneur. But I'd bet that his firm will have lots of conventionally college educated people working for it.

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Originally Posted by MISin08

You forgot "*Yawn*"

I think that's covered by "I am ambivalent." :-)

I'm inclined to agree with you.

Any individual who has the ability to set goals, secure resources and be consistent will most likely be successful in any circumstance.