How Students Can Take Charge of Their Education
By HOLLY EPSTEIN OJALVO
Last month, The Times’s Sunday Review published an Op-Ed article by Michael Ellsberg called “Will Dropouts Save America?” In it, he argued that our school system tends to stifle rather than promote creativity and that students do not learn essential skills and habits of mind needed to start businesses. He said that when it comes to job creation, he puts his faith in college dropouts who become entrepreneurs.
Meet one of those dropout entrepreneurs: Dale J. Stephens. After just a few months of college – in which he enrolled after spending his middle and high school years“unschooling” – Mr. Stephens, 19, left school. Based on his conviction that college is not necessary for success and fulfillment, he founded an organization calledUnCollege, which promotes ways that young people can “hack their education” by finding individualized paths to self-directed learning. A Thiel fellowship recipient, he is currently writing a book for Penguin called “Hacking Your Education” and traveling extensively on speaking engagements.
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