The End of School: Reclaiming Education from the Classroom

by Zachary Slayback

The world owes you nothing except for the value you create within it.

Learn a skill set you didn’t study in school.

Do things that aren’t assigned to you.

I’ve never let my schooling interfere with my education.

structure is so important that it can’t be left to one-size-fits-all models in schools.

It’s no secret that schools have a propensity for crushing creativity

THE DEGREE IS SPECULATION, NOT INVESTMENT

The rise in “degree or equivalent work experience” is stronger than ever.

When you don’t know what you want from your life or career, going to college quickly jumps from being an investment to being a speculation.

Being a credentialist (requiring a degree to apply for a position) only hurts one person and group at the end of the day: you and your company.

The relative value of a degree for employers means less today than ever before.

Despite sending more people to college, fewer graduates are equipped to deal with the changing technologies and strategies of the workforce.

Entrepreneurship among young people is actually relatively uncommon.

schooling culture and system that encourages young people to waste away the first 22-30 years of their lives away from the market,

these licenses are almost always just some kind of rent-seeking by firms currently in the market trying to keep out potential competitors.

areas with a high amount of student loan debt also see the smallest growth in small businesses.[xxxviii]