Reuters is reporting State Supreme Court Justice Milton Tingling in Manhattan has ruled the new regulation put into effect by Nanny State aficionado, Michael Bloomberg as “arbitrary and capricious.” He also declared it invalid, after the American Beverage Association and other business groups sued the city challenging the ban. Continue reading
Daily Archives: March 11, 2013
20 year-old Dale Stephens dropped out of school in the 5th grade because he was bored. In his observation, school wasn’t really a place for learning — it was a place to discuss Pokémon. Determined to embrace his idea of learning he then created his own curriculum in lieu of a formal education. In subsequent years he’s gone on to build a library in his hometown, live in France, and work in Silicon Valley — despite having dropped out of school again. This time college. He now runs uncollege.org, a site for those seeking unconventional education, and has just published a book Hacking Your Education: Ditch the Lectures, Save Tens of Thousands, and Learn More Than Your Peers Ever Will, that tells millennials college isn’t the only way to gain success — it’s all about experiences outside the classroom.
Is this notion a stroke of simplistic genius or detrimental? Continue reading
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