In my humble opinion, the value of graduating from a name university is highly overrated. And more so, going into debt for financing the attendance there definitely is.
Look around you, checking the educational background of high profile achievers in all kinds of fields, and look at their educational path, this is what you are going to find (histories picked from web):
Already 133 years ago, Frank Lloyd Wright (one of America’s greatest architects, interior designer, writer, and educator) was admitted to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1886, but left after only one year. Only then his real education started, and truly never ended.
In more modern times, Warren Buffett (CEO of Berkshire Hathaway) never had the intention of going to college. By 13, he was managing his own business as a paperboy. Yet, his father urged him to attend the University of Pennsylvania for business, which Warren did at age 16. After two years of complaining that he knew more than his professors, he moved on to the University of Nebraska in Lincoln and finished his degree there, graduating from the University of Nebraska at age 19 with a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration.
Buffett wanted to keep his education going, so he applied to Harvard but was rejected. He then researched Columbia University, and earned a Master of Science in economics from Columbia in 1951. Then, shortly after graduation from Columbia, he briefly attended the New York Institute of Finance.
Bill Gates (Founder of Microsoft), you already know, attended Lakeside School 1967-1973, then Harvard College 1973-1975, when he dropped out.
FaceBook’s Mark Zuckerberg, you may recall, is another Harvard dropout.
Dell Computers’ Michael Dell dropped out of University of Texas at Austin his freshman year at the age of 19. …
Apple’s Steve Jobs dropped out of Reed College after just six months.
And so it goes …
Instead, these high performers got their high quality education from lesser known institutions and otherwise, all of which obviously did as good as, or even a better job, than the Ivy League colleges. Not one of these superbly educated individuals went into debt in order to study.
And that’s of course how it should be: Get your education at an affordable rate or entirely cost-free, if possible. Which IS possible. All it takes is to check out ALL avenues of learning. You’ll be amazed how many there are.
One way to go, which was not available to Frank Lloyd Wright, not even to Warren Buffet and most of the others who needed education before the year 2000: is ONLINE.
Yes, great institutions of learning now exist which are entirely ONLINE. No need to enter any classrooms or travel across town or the country. The teachers and all the supporting evidence for your studies come to you, wherever you are, and can be replayed as often as you like. In comparison to brick-and-mortar institutions of learning, the cost of online learning is rather negligible; for sure no need to go into debt for. Even, there are many courses which are entirely cost-free.
So, no excuse for NOT studying for whatever you are interested in learning, nor taking out loans to get your learning. Here find a list of Accredited Online Programs, Colleges & Universities:
Ideally, learning should not mean a substantial outlay of money, but be affordable, inspiring and fun. By these parameters, ONLINE is a good way to go. Enjoy!
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