You choose what you learn, how you learn, where you learn, and when you learn. You select your instructors. You set the pace of your studies. You are the One Person Schoolhouse.
The dawn of a new era in education is upon us. Let your education be as unique as you.
The era in American history of people laboring their entire lives on an assembly line or following a single career track for a single employer is long gone.
All that remains of that bygone era is an educational system that prepares students to succeed in it.
The era of the assembly-line, mass-production model of education has run its course. Evidence is all around you, but it’s hard to see when you’re experiencing the evolution.
The weight of the entire educational system infrastructure rests on two documents: the high school diploma and the university degree.
You can purchase most textbooks and resources used in classrooms, watch YouTube videos explaining just about any concept, join online chat groups discussing how to solve almost any problem, and even visit a country to learn a language right where it’s spoken.
If acquiring knowledge is so easy and relatively inexpensive, can you explain why do you need to attend school? What, exactly, are you paying for when you attend high school and college?
When you understand this, you’ll never see the education system the same again.
The existing educational system is as incompatible with modern life as a cart being pulled by two oxen on an interstate highway.
Martin Luther posted a list of grievances on the church door. He didn’t want the church to go away; he simply wanted some reforms.
Much of what made the American school system a global powerhouse of education in the 1950s makes the school system an anchor dragging behind the student today.
Listing grievances against the existing school system framework is a call for reform.
How, when, and where you learned the subject matter is immaterial when you sit for a certification examination.
So, learn the subject matter how, when, and where you want…
What replaces the assembly-line model of education? Education tailored to the individual. The One Person Schoolhouse. A lifelong classroom of one. You.
The Certification-Based Education system is forming even now without any guiding organization or government agency.
At the minimum, Certification-Based Education requires a student, an employer, and a trusted third-party to vouch for the education of the student in the form of certificates.
But Certification-Based Education is an entire ecosystem of learning. You’re familiar with the assembly-line model of education. Now discover a better way.
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