No, you don’t need to rent a campus, hire professors and start charging tuition. Setting up a personal university means taking your self-education as seriously as any schooling you manage pay for. While regular university is expensive and stops when … Continue reading
Longtime PickTheBrain reader Marc recently contacted me with the following request: Hi John. Just wondering if you’re going to post any articles on the importance of quantitative reasoning or perhaps tips on studying math – much like your articles on … Continue reading
How did your studying go last term? Did you spend time learning things as they were being taught, or did you end up having to go through caffeine-loaded, marathon study sessions the night before your finals? Continue reading
Tuition costs are rising. Textbooks might as well be printed on gold. You’re contemplating selling a kidney on the black market to pay off your student-debt. Does learning have to cost that much?
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You can use this 4 part mental framework to read faster and learn how to improve reading comprehension. Continue reading
If a truly universal “University” can be created on the web, this will provide peer inspired motivation. Perhaps we will achieve the vision of world-wide, interlocking, learning “convivia “, communities of learning communities. Continue reading
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