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Forget Paying For College: How To Get The Same Education For Free

[ Originally published on March 31st, 2014 ]

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College is a scam! There, I said it. College has nothing to do with gaining knowledge. Like public schooling, the goal of most post-secondary education establishments is to teach people how to be submissive, how to follow orders and how to regurgitate facts; not to mention anchoring oneself down with copious amounts of student loan debt [$28,720 USD (United States Dollars) on average]. Americans owe more than one trillion USD in student loans [that’s a 1 followed by 12 zeros, or $1,000,000,000,000]! I’ll show you how to get the same education for free!

[ ^ 10,000 pallets stacked high with $100 bills. Each pallet holds $100 million. That's what one trillion dollars looks like. ]

College degrees aren’t all that they’re cracked up to be. Besides being overpriced, they do not guarantee you a job, let alone a career in your desired field. 365,000 college graduates were working as cashiers in 2008. In 2010, over 317,000 college graduates were waiting tables. You spend 4+ years busting your ass to keep your grade point average up and earn a [piece of paper] degree, and for what? Minimum wage? Instead of falling into the debt cycle, take advantage of the myriad of free online educational resources, such as:


► Alison



► edX

► Free-Ed












► UDACITY




Stay conscious my friends.

 ~ Merit Freeman

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