Hacking Your Education Hacking Your Education

Hacking Your Education

Ditch the Lectures, Save Tens of Thousands, and Learn More Than Your Peers Ever Will

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Publisher Description

It’s no secret that college doesn’t prepare students for the real world. Student loan debt recently eclipsed credit card debt for the first time in history and now tops one trillion dollars. And the throngs of unemployed graduates chasing the same jobs makes us wonder whether there’s a better way to “make it” in today’s marketplace.

There is—and Dale Stephens is proof of that. In Hacking Your Education, Stephens speaks to a new culture of “hackademics” who think college diplomas are antiquated. Stephens shows how he and dozens of others have hacked their education, and how you can, too. You don’t need to be a genius or especially motivated to succeed outside school. The real requirements are much simpler: curiosity, confidence, and grit.

Hacking Your Education offers valuable advice to current students as well as those who decided to skip college. Stephens teaches you to create opportunities for yourself and design your curriculum—inside or outside the classroom. Whether your dream is to travel the world, build a startup, or climb the corporate ladder, Stephens proves you can do it now, rather than waiting for life to start after “graduation” day.

GENRE
Professional & Technical
RELEASED
2013
March 5
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
208
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
885.9
KB

Customer Reviews

Brent-Newtron ,

Everything I've been thinking for years

By chance I happened to see an interview with Dale Stephens on tv about his new book. In less than 5 minutes everything he discussed summarized everything I had been thinking about colleges and high schools for the past few years.

Mr. Stephens effectively argues that college is not synonymous with a useful education, arguing instead that sometimes experience is a better teacher than the classroom, something which I have been debating within myself for some time. He also points out the rising amount of funds needed to attend college while unemployment is still growing, making college an uncertain investment.

As a disillusioned college sophomore, I highly recommend this book to any college age and high school age student. Too often in American society (I cannot speak for other cultures) we assume college to be required for a productive and high paying career, and more often than not I have found that the classroom is as stimulating as is it stifling.