This is such a timely post, and so well thought out and presented. In many ways I feel that the college debt I accrued is the biggest mistake I have made in my life. My experience in the job market tells me that getting a degree means next to nothing compared to experience; and taking on added responsibility once inside a company, and taking advantage of internal training, is usually a faster track to upper level jobs than the master's level degree in business or whatever. And don't get me started on the traditional educational model. You would be hard pressed to design a worse method of education than to to ask students to sit still and listen while a professor speaks. Not all classrooms are like that, all the time, but it is still the standard model. And it ignores the way humans work - we have hundreds of thousands of years of evolutionary history honing our ability to learn through participant observation and hands on engagement. We have a tiny little span of human history spent learning by sitting still and listening and reading out of a book.

Looking forward to more posting from you!

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