Kids are bombarded with propaganda in favor of college and academia. Here are some resources to include other, more skeptical, opinions. Articles: The Fall of the Ivory Tower Thiel Fellowship Pays 24 Talented Students $100,000 Not to Attend College The University Has No Clothes "College is a Waste of Time" The Case For and Against College In Grim Job Market, Student Loans Are a Costly Burden The $555,000 Student-Loan Burden Student loans leave crushing debt burden We're in a Bubble and It's Not the Internet. It's Higher Education The latest bubble? Higher Education - Bubble, Closed Society Or Free Market? Higher Education Bubble Will Burst The Higher Education Bubble College Degrees without Classroom Attendance Will Dropouts Save America? Could Apprenticeships Replace College Degrees? Thiel Foundation To New Crop Of College-Bound Grads: Don't Go Our Universities: Why Are They Failing?
Videos: Cameron Herold Let's Raise Kids to be Entrepreneurs Charles Leadbeater on Education On Open-Source Learning Bring on the Learning Revolution Play is More than Fun The Child-Driven Education How Kids Teach Themselves Changing Education Paradigms "Schools Kill Creativity" Get Rich Investing In Your Own Human Capital
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Websites: http://www.uncollege.org/ http://diyubook.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher_education_bubble http://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/the-college-solution http://strongbrains.com/ http://blogs.forbes.com/michaelellsberg/
