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How to Ghost College Classes
July 6, 2009, 8 Comments
Steve Jobs says that dropping out of college was one of the best decisions he ever made. Why? Because after quitting school he was able to sit in on courses ...

Ivy League Education at Home Part 7: Quantitative Reasoning
July 3, 2009, 9 Comments
“The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.” – S. Gudder When you hear the phrase “quantitative reasoning,” does it bring ...

Harvard Classics vs. Great Books of the Western World
June 26, 2009, 19 Comments
There are two book collections designed to give the average reader an in-depth liberal education: the Harvard Classics and the Great Books of the Western World. The volumes in the ...

Practical Learning: Reuniting Thinking and Doing
June 23, 2009, 7 Comments
“If thinking is bound up with action, then the task of getting an adequate grasp on the world, intellectually, depends on our doing stuff in it.” The word “intelligence” conjures ...

5 Ways You Can Support Self-Education on the Web
June 16, 2009, 8 Comments
The web is an amazing collection of no-cost resources for lifelong learners. I’ve shared hundreds of resource links on this blog and there are millions of others available to help ...

Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals
June 12, 2009, 3 Comments
Want to bring your learning to the next level? It may be time to set a Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal. It’s easy to come up with small, overly-realistic goals. But, ...

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