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Allan Wallace trains visionaries.
Allan is Rector of both Bastiat Free University and Junior Partner Ministries. Allan also writes for Speculation Rule... (more...)
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Other colleges are places to get a college degree.
Bastiat Free University is developing a place to learn.
Starting before kindergarten, college degrees are marketed as a way to get a better job, more income, or a promotion. Bureaucrats are selling meal tickets to future bureaucrats.
But college degrees are losing value as they become common and as bureaucracies shrink with the ending of the industrial age. That college degree meal ticket no longer guarantees entry to a quality meal.
At student-centric Bastiat Free University your emphasis can be on rediscovering the joy of learning. You can learn at no cost except for books and supplies - just register and monitor the classes.
Finally; a college that embraces cost appropriate learning.
If you want to gain actionable knowledge - if you want to make you more valuable - investigate Bastiat Free University. Here are some goals to explore at BFU -- discovering new passions, reigniting your love of learning, challenging accepted ideas, unveiling exciting opportunities.
What a radical idea - going to school to learn.
Do it for yourself this time.
Contents at a Glance
- Bastiat Free University - responsibility, personal control, freedom
- Discover - Learn - Act
- What do YOU want to know?
Bastiat Free University - responsibility, personal control, freedom
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding. -- Proverbs 4:7, the Bible
College costs too much time and too much money. The core learning acquired by your investment in a formal college education is bureaucracy survival.With diploma in hand a college education's advertised function can now be utilized. A college degree serves as a sales tool for imploring job interviews.
It is not wisdom, understanding, or creativity adding value to college graduates. Instead huge institutions valued the active compliance demonstrated by fulfilling college graduation requirements. Submission to authority is a virtue in bureaucratic organizations - most college educated employees can be used like interchangeable machine parts.
The student-centric BFU response has been to offer internationally accessible and actionable self-directed learning for those that want to run their own lives. We exist to enhance and enable student's creative and audacious dreams.
"If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it." - Albert Einstein
Bastiat Free University is proudly unaccredited and intends to remain an unaccredited college. Satisfying the accreditation guilds would make us just like everyone else. We also remain outside of bureaucratic control as an educational auxiliary within an unincorporated church.
Bastiat Free University is not being built to segment and distribute information - it already exists as a catalyst to reignite your love of learning.
BFU is dedicated to providing cost appropriate learning tools to those pursuing understanding. We will only be able to provide this service by avoiding bureaucratic entanglements.
We started free, we want to stay free, we want to help others become free.
Discover - Learn - Act
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. - Justice Learned Hand
What do YOU want to know?
discover and engage your passion -- In books of your own choosing
If the pleasure of reading was stolen from you during required schooling - take back that pleasure today. The more you read, the faster and easier it is to read. The faster and easier it is to read, the more enjoyable reading becomes. Reading is a pleasuring skill, useful for entertainment and in the gathering of information.
Of course if you are reading for deeper understanding, speed is not important. What is to be valued in serious reading is comprehension and analysis - do you find wisdom in what was written?
It will take effort to gain understanding from deeper literature. This type of reading will also bring pleasures, but of a more enduring sort. For serious reading follow this process:
1) Understand what the author is trying to say.
2) Decide if what you are reading is logical and honest.
3) Consider how to present what you have discovered in a logical and honest manner.
4) Discuss and write about what you are learning.
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest." - Benjamin Franklin
The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
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Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950
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Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School
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Plutarch's Lives Volume 1 (Modern Library Classics)
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BFU Weekly Journal - documenting the creation of a new form of higher education
"In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists." - Eric Hoffer
While the learning tools offered at Bastiat Free University are valuable, they have even greater value when shared. Pass on, and discuss what you discover at BFU. Find or start a local support & study group to enhance your learning experience.
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all." - Noam Chomsky
BFU is here to support life-long learners pursuing their dreams. If you know other open learners; tell them about Bastiat Free University.
Here are links to your most recent BFU Weekly Journal.
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realize tangible results during your lifetime
Our efforts can have a positive impact on our own lives - and on the lives of many others.Fund student visionaries right now with a one time gift of any amount using a credit card or PayPal -- or make a monthly $10.00 donation to provide funding for our (students, BFU, and you the investors in change) combined pursuit of educational relevance.
Make a substantial difference in both student lives and society by writing a check and following the simple instructions on the BFU college contribution Form. You will favorably effect how current students and future generations relate to our world.
Unlike ignorance - an appropriate gift for improving education doesn't hurt. As we combine our gifts we become a force - a proactive force for positive change.
You can keep connected with your educational legacy by remembering Bastiat Free University in your will or trust, and as part of your overall estate plan. Anticipating your bequest's impact is a continuous opportunity to enjoy the sweet taste of giving.
Bequests and endowments can share your future estate unrestricted or may be directed to special projects such as The Netcohort Institute. Please download and send us the college contribution Form so we can properly thank you. You can instruct us within the form as to testimonials, memorials, or other aspects of your college donation.
One student could only offer moral support - her form of a major gift is very encouraging. Marge, who lives in the Philippines, e-mailed Bastiat Free University "I believe in your cause and your vision. but right now I don't have a dollar or even a quarter to donate ... i wish you well. God bless."
For more information about supporting BFU contact me or visit the Bastiat Free University college donations page.
* I live in Southern California and would love to visit with you when you are in the area - a contact link is under my picture. I have made significant donations to BFU but that is my choice; there will be no pressure for you to donate during our first visit. Your perspective and insights will help us improve BFU. I am particularly interested in hearing your ideas for The Netcohort Institute.
Of course if you come up with some great ideas like Ross Rayburn did I may ask you to become a council member of the Bastiat Free University advisory council. The advisory council identifies opportunities and problems and then makes recommendations concerning BFU.
Quick Poll: Is Bastiat Free University Right For You?
For now BFU is not offering a college degree option. Everything on our sites is open to you at no charge. enjoy
* If you lack the self discipline to finish what you start without someone controlling your actions - BFU is not for you.
Even in BFU's most structured format there is not a lot of structure. BFU was created for self-directed visionaries and entrepreneurs - students that find freedom and personal control appealing.
* If you want to be a bureaucrat - BFU is not for you.
College degree credits or a diploma from Bastiat Free University will not be accepted by government licensing bureaus, most other colleges, and many employers. BFU is purposely unaccredited and intends to stay that way.
* However, Bastiat Free University may be for you:
if you want to interact with other successful individualists in the network society;
if you want to be honored with an enviable reputation based on performance;
if you willingly want to take responsibility for your own life;
and if in exchange you expect personal freedom and control;
welcome home to your Bastiat Free University. Please help us develop BFU into something extraordinary.
So...
Which FREE Is It?
-- Free Speech or Free Ride?
"Academies that are founded at public expense are instituted not so much to cultivate men's natural abilities as to restrain them." - Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)
A free ride is also available (please pitch in a few bucks for gas) since you can register and monitor classes at no charge; just acquire your own materials and mass produced books. Use our class structure to construct your own "higher learning" regime. Focus on finding creative projects that require increasing your skills, knowledge, and wisdom in order to be completed.
Don't just pursue a degree and then a job, concentrate instead on realizing your most audacious dreams.
For now, BFU college degrees and learning certificates are no longer offered. All of our resources are now available without charge - dig in! Spend more time discovering and possessing your personal destiny; spend less time concerned about financing a college education.
There is no better time to start discovering you. Head over to your Bastiat Free University Journal to learn why.
Excellence Without a Soul: How a Great University Forgot Education
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Self University: The Price of Tuition Is the Desire to Learn : Your Degree Is a Better Life
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Og Mandino's University of Success
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The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing that Changes Everything
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The Knowledge Factory: Dismantling the Corporate University and Creating True Higher Learning
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Create Your Own College Course
Call it passion, reason to exist, destiny, or finding meaning for your life. What is so important YOU want to share it with everyone?
Do you really understand your Passion? Help others discover it.
"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." - Vincent Van Gogh
Share your passion. right here, right now, on Squidoo.
One of my passions is student-directed learning, so this one page Squidoo lens is about BFU. Follow this link to start your own lens about a subject you love to think, write, and talk about. Your lens will be easy to revise - don't worry about making it perfect yet - just make it. You will need several modules before Squidoo will display it as a completed lens.
List an Amazon module with 3 to 5 good books about your topic, or an Amazon Plexo with up to ten books, Tell a reader to pick two books to start the course. Write a text module on each of the three top books you recommend, explaining their value. Find or create a YouTube or two on the subject. Then go wild and do a link module to good stuff about your passion on the internet.
All of this can be done quickly and easily using Squidoo. If you want to see an example of an excellent children's course look at the Royalton Raid Squidoo lens by Evelyn Sanez.
Add whatever YOU think is appropriate.
Then come back here and post a comment with a link to your course so others can benefit from your passion. Your class may also make it into the regular BFU curriculum. If you want to positively change education and society, your new course may also belong at the Netcohort Institute.
Register for no charge at Bastiat Free University to monitor our current class structure - you can create better.
You can just do it to show off, help others, expand your learning, or just 'cause BFU gets 5 bucks if your lens makes money for you or a charity.
Let's see what you've got!
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j3nny3lf
Lensrolled to my unschooling lens! What a fantastic concept. Posted May 07, 2008 |
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Evelyn_Saenz
I feel honored to be mentioned in your lens. I have lensrolled this page to my Garner Rix Lens but also to my John Holt:Unschooling and my Teaching from the Heart lenses. Posted May 01, 2008 |
i would like everyone to appreciate the power of the new internet computer and how it has made such an impact on human life in america and around the world continue to help others and i will ask others to join the college also
Posted November 28, 2007
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You Don''t Need A College To Learn
not even Bastiat Free University
The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had
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cool and hot links for college students
downloads, blogs, learning resource sites, and other goodies
Some will inform you, some will challenge you, others will offer tools to assist you. Check them all, bookmark what you find interesting.
While you are at it please bookmark this site. There are buttons to digg, stumble, and delicious this page to the left. One button will allow you to e-mail this page to anyone you think might appreciate it.
- Bastiat Free University Quick Scan
- Check here if you want to get a quick idea of BFU and then move on to registration. Read this famous Bastiat parable as your application to BFU. Since there is no charge to register and monitor classes - do it right now.
Check this link if you want more information on making college donations to support the eager BFU students that want to improve their world and ours.
. - The Full "I'm Too Smart" Collection
- Smart BFU hats, golf shirts, mugs, and other goodies for you to consider. (including a very cute BFU teddy bear)
Bastiat Free University
Because
I'm too smart for a state college
and
I'm too good looking for Ivy League
. - The Netcohort Institute
- Starting in early 2008 this will be the first home of The Netcohort Institute.
Expect some tough courses that will expand your capabilities within the networked, Internet centric Netcohort . There will also be tools to assist your collaboration with other creative individuals. Unbound by distance, age, or national identity you can multiply each other's opportunities.
, - Squidoo Lenses That Support BFU
- Make a lens about your audacious dream. Now as a Bastiat Free University supporter submit that lens to the BFU support group.
, - free download and links page
- Get Firefox, OpenOffice, eZIP35, Foxit PDF reader, and other open source downloads here.
. - Bastiat Free University
- This is the "old" main site. If you want to dig into what makes BFU tick, this is the clock to break open.
enjoy
. - Junior Partner Ministries
- JrPM is in charge of this whole BFU gig. The church thought a no cost or low cost, world wide, quality higher education could be helpful to many.
Junior Partner ministries also provided the ideas behind the BFU School Of Theology. "I believe that He who arranged the material world was not to remain foreign to the arrangements of the social world." - Claude Frédéric Bastiat
So here we are. This is our audacious dream. let us help you define and create your own outrageous dream.
, - Speculation Rules - An Anti Investment Resource
- Money is just a tool.
But like a crowbar, some folks will use it to open things, others drop it on their toes.
Most money information is misinformation provided by organizations that want to sell you something. They make commissions - you lose money.
There are almost a hundred pages here to help you find the other, happier, side of finance.
. - - The BFU Journal -
- documenting the creation of a student-centric college
Bastiat Free University offers student-centric learning for visionaries and entrepreneurs. Rediscover for yourself the pleasures to be found in self directed learning.
Have you started at Bastiat Free University?
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