The Science of Self-Learning: How to Teach Yourself Anything, Learn More in Less Time, and Direct Your Own Education (Learning how to Learn Book 1)

by Peter Hollins

It makes you close-minded. Ivy League colleges deserve their high reputations. But let’s be honest: they often create a social hierarchy based on who went through the proper channels and who deserves what. It’s not just confined to highly ranked universities, of course. The culture surrounding much of traditional education tells that there is truly only one path, and that’s the path they took; anyone else is illegitimate. How could someone do the same job as me when I have a bachelor of arts in sociology from a four-year university? Well… pretty easily, actually. It actually hinders future learning. After 20 years of force-fed learning—tens of thousands of hours of lecture, reading, studying, and accumulating facts—you’re almost conditioned not to learn in any other way. You don’t imagine that there even is another way, much less that you are able to direct it yourself. You believe learning is to sit and absorb and then demonstrate said absorption. Many are the students who’ve experienced so much burn-out from institutional learning that