003. Dale Stevens: or glancing at an upcoming revolution in superior education.

We were told since the first day that on thursday we will have the visit of Dale Stephens, recipient of a Thiel Scholarship and founder of the movement UnCollege. He arrived on time and we start asking him about his experience as unschooled autodidact. He shared with us about his experience in his teen years and how he dropped school and instead start learning by himself and getting together with other friends interested in learning. After this experience the College time that he had couldn't full fill the joy and broad range of activities that he used to do. So he decided to drop College and start to work on his own projects. Since college loans and the poor quality of the education are hot topics now a day his decision  made him to be on the spot on the news. So we was interviewed and then he chose to start working not in his project (I remind to be something on IT) but on a movement to tell the truth about superior education in the US and honestly in the world. His movement have fuelled some of the hottest debates about education in modern times. That is why he was invited to the inauguration of the MPC to address the fact that education and special superior education in general are about to experience a major change.

Not about his movement but about him I can say that I learned the following: 1) To be a risk taker, stop caring about what others would think about what I am doing and also not to care about sunk costs. 2) That as I knew before there are great examples of what can you achieve in the absence of a university degree. In other words there are life after the degree.  3) To be confident about yourself and to challenge you and think you are the best. 4) As Diedre told us you have to THINK for sure that you can do something even if you are just starting and then you will do it. (As Carmen say fake it until you make it) [See the example of his book interview... mpcers you know what I’m talking about right? hehehehe] 5) Also as he shared with us about his flower business there are amazing activities to make money that you can start doing when you stop thinking about  classes in the usual way. Everything is a chance to learn!