How to Get a College Education

It can be done, even in the Ivy League, if you keep your eye on the goal of education.

Here is a pretty good article on finding your own way through a college education. It is a little dense, but there are some good ideas in here:

"...So I launched into an impromptu oral quiz.

Could anyone (in that class of 25 students) say anything about the Mayflower Compact?

Complete silence.

John Locke?

Nope.

James Madison?

Silentia.

Magna Carta? The Spanish Armada? The Battle of Yorktown? The Bull Moose party? Don Giovanni ? William James? The Tenth Amendment?

Zero. Zilch. Forget it.

The embarrassment was acute, but some good came of it."

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=M2NjMWYzNDI0ODhhZDAzNWNhMjMxMmVhOGZhYjcwOGM=