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The Great Electrician Shortage
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Don’t force child care workers to get college degrees
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The skilled trades haven't caught as a career choice with Gen Z
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Is Everything an MLM? (2019)
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The Catherine Project: A new experiment in liberal education
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Smart kids should skip high school (2015)
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Master’s degrees are the second biggest scam in higher education?
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Disciplined Minds (2008)
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Access to vocational education can boost income over the long term
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A College Degree Is No Guarantee of a Good Life
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Do I need to go to university?
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I killed my teenager’s fancy college dreams
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YC, not Lambda School, is unbundling education
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Is everything an MLM
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School is all about signaling, not skill-building
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Students don't seem to be getting much out of higher education (2018)
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The Stigma of Choosing Trade School over College
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Going to university does not broaden the mind
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Bulldoze the business school
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Surprising Things About School
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Governments have overestimated the economic returns of higher education
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The World Might Be Better Off Without College for Everyone
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What's Wrong with Students?
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Firefighter Math
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College Advice I Wish I’d Taken
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Universities are broke – let’s cut the pointless admin and get back to teaching
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How many jobs really require college?
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America's Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree
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Why I Majored in Philosophy Despite Everyone Telling Me Not To (2013)
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Everything You Need to Know About Your Son and Daughter’s University but Don’t
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A Culture Against Dropouts, Deviants and Troubled Young Adults
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Our Universities: The Outrageous Reality
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Sexual Paranoia Strikes Academe
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Thinking too highly of higher ed
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Universities can’t fulfil the myth, but can’t become vocational schools either
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PowerPointless: Digital slideshows are the scourge of higher education
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Being an excellent robot (Erica Goldson Graduation speech)
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Things Your Commencement Speaker Won't Tell You
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Will Your College Go Out of Business Before You Graduate?
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University of Wisconsin to offer degrees based on tested ability
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College has been oversold
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Gates to students: Don’t try to be a billionaire, it’s overrated
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An open letter to Peter Thiel
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Friends Don’t Let Friends Take Education Advice From Peter Thiel
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Why you shouldn't bother with an MBA
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Why old people make better entrepreneurs than young ones
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The Management Myth (2006)
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Bill Gates: In Five Years The Best Education Will Come From The Web
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American Professor to Chinese PhD Student: Go Make Money instead
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Hate Mail from Third Graders
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Business School is a Joke
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Smart People should do Stupid Stuff
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In the Basement of the Ivory Tower
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For Most People, College Is a Waste of Time
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On letting go of spite
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Why don't schools teach debugging, or, more fundamentally, fundamentals?
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Americans' confidence in higher education has taken a nosedive
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