“You + College = Success” 

That's the formula taught to many students and, unfortunately, a belief still rooted among many adults. 

Truth is, however, getting a degree in a classroom is NOT critical to your success. 

Now, don’t get the wrong idea.

Education IS important, but who is to say you need “formal” education?

Building your knowledge doesn’t have to happen solely within a classroom, and to prove it, we’ve got a professional FROM the classroom to teach you just that.

In today’s episode of The Sage and The Outlaw, we’ve got Hayle Jerome – an elementary teacher with five years of experience and a pHD student in educational leadership. 

With Hayle, you’ll learn things not commonly taught in textbooks – from the origin of education to where it stands today. From the impact passionate professors can make to their students, to the problems and dangers apathetic teachers create. From the benefits of formal education to the disadvantages. 

And most importantly, from the teacher’s responsibility to cultivate your learning to YOUR responsibility.

Yeah, we’ve said it – you gotta teach yourself to teach yourself.

Don’t worry though.

Learning doesn’t have to be boring. 

In fact, it can be exhilarating. 

Seriously. Mother-fuckin' exhilarating.

Like, picture having conversations with imaginative authors inside of books, arguing against each other.

Picture understanding learning styles and applying what you learn in minutes.

Picture being able to read three times as fast, consuming power like eating your favorite ice cream.

Picture dragons and wizards showing you how science connects with magic. 

We know that sounds crazy, but that’s the point.

You + Learning + Imagination + Application = Success. That’s our promise.

So, if you wanna be a maverick – an indispensable problem-solver, then it’s time you learn to stretch your mind outside of the classroom. 

To evaluate the lessons being taught to you and determine if they’re worth learning. 

To look inside of you for the traits you had as a kid: having imagination, giving creativity, and not giving a crap ‘bout limitations. 

To accept a career that’ll pay you more than anything else in life: a career in life-long learning. 

Ready?

Then take a seat in the faculties of your own mind – where the standards of education no longer apply.

Where you set the standards yourself. 

The only prerequisite to today’s lesson? Tapping that play button.

Resources:

• How to Read a Book by Mortimer J Adler and Charles Van Doren
• The First 20 Hours: How to Learn Anything ... Fast by Josh Kaufman
• Classroom Instruction that Works: Research-based Strategies for Increasing Student Achievement by Robert J. Marzano
• You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life by Jen Sincero
• Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill