“Writing makes a person more exact and is a

skill required of all educated people.”

1. At your initiation, your mentor is available for consultation on a regular basis.

2. The student is in charge of his or her own learning. Institutions don’t learn,

people learn.

3. The required work for all programs consists of writing a minimum of 25

pages representing critical summaries of the student’s understanding of the

material. By the end of the program, you will have created a body of written

work suitable for publication and sale from your own website.

Academic Fallacies

“Since a college’s or university’s academic prestige (unfortunately) depends

primarily on its professor’s research and publications, students will not …

get a better education at the more prestigious institutions with the higher

paid faculty…”

“One of the biggest fallacies about academic institutions is that attendance

at big-name colleges and universities is virtually essential for reaching the

top later in life.”

“The four institutions with the highest percentage of their undergraduates

going on to receive PhDs are all small colleges with less than 2,000

undergraduates … Some have fewer than 1,000 students…”

“Of the chief executive officers of the 50 largest American corporations

surveyed in 2006, only four had Ivy League degrees and just over half

graduated from state colleges, city colleges, or a community college.”

“Some, including Michael Dell and Bill Gates did not graduate at all!”

* Economic Facts and Fallacies by Dr. Thomas Sowell