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“A college diploma is not a prerequisite for obtaining an absurd amount of wealth.”

--Forbes.com





A U.S. Collegeeducation is notworth the money

unlessyou are

becoming a specialist

in a medical or

scientific field.


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“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”

--Jim Rohn



cost debt payoff





Most Americans believe college

FAILS to provide a good return on

investment.

--Education Digest




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More employers are questioning

“lack of experienceand

practical worth”of 4-year college degrees

--USA Today









“Student debt is the only kind of household debt that continued to RISE through the Great Recession” and is now the “second largest balance after mortgage debt.” --D. Lee, Economist, Federal Reserve Bank

of NY





Because of student loan debt,"you could have generations that never get in the economic mainstream"

--Ted Beck, President and CEO of the National Endowment for Financial Education.



“Half of the nation’s recent college graduates

work jobs that don’t require a degree.”--Huffington Post







There are now more people without jobs who went to college than those who did not.

--Business Insider


“Education is broken.”


--Business Insider



Rethink.

CostDebt Payoff



Because of increasing cost, skyrocketing debt, and

diminishing payoff,a U.S. College

education is notworth the money

unlessyou are becoming a specialist

in a medical or

scientific field.





“We must address the underlying model of education and reinvent it for a new era.”

--Business Insider


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