Why Avoiding the Traditional Path of University Education Will Help, Yes HELP, Your Children Survive the Next Five Years

The proper decision now regarding your child's education may
be the difference in whether you set your child up for a life of failure or a
life of success. Yes I really do believe that the decision on whether to send
your child to university now or to forgo that traditional route  is a “make or break your child’s
life" type of decision. So in that regard, the pathway you choose for your child
right now may very well be one of the most important investment decisions of
your life .

But first a little background. Whether you like it or not, the political and social
upheaval that has afflicted Portugal, Spain, Greece, Mozambique, and is now afflicting
Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt will be coming to your country sometime in the next
3 years. Just visit this link to witness the angry mob violence in Tunisia that arose in response to massive unemployment coupled with soaring food prices that the people can no
longer afford. I know what you're thinking, "But that is Tunisia, and that
will never happen in MY COUNTRY." But this is precisely what everyone
thinks until it happens in THEIR country.

What is the absolute worst thing that can happen during a
crisis? Being unprepared for it, right? So rather than just blindly saying that
what is happening in Tunisia and Egypt will never happen in your country, it
is a much more intelligent approach to look at the triggers of that violence in
these countries and discover if these same triggers exist in your own country.

In every country that has ever suffered from circumstances
that rapidly devolved into outrage and violence, it is likely that the citizens
of that country never saw the violence coming until it was already upon them.
When economies and families' livelihoods are hanging by a thread, a small spark
can trigger a massive fire. So what are these circumstances and what does
education and your child's future have to do with the situation in Algeria,
Tunisia, and Egypt?  Everything, as I'll soon explain.

Violence and mass protests are occurring in many countries
because of massive unemployment and soaring food and energy prices that in some
instances have risen by 80% in a matter of weeks and/or months. Soaring food prices and
massive rates of unemployment are the direct result of Central Bank policies
of "quantitative easing", a euphemism for the destruction of purchasing power of
all fiat currencies around the world.  Distortions in pricing caused by
Central Banks' deliberate devaluation of currencies cause massive
inefficiencies in markets, create massive bubbles and instability, and destroy, rather than create sustainable
economic growth. This pattern repeats itself over and over in every country in the world with Central Bankers blaming everyone for these catastrophes except the reponsible parties - themselves.

Do you live in a country that has huge levels of
unemployment (in terms of REAL unemployment numbers, not the bogus "official" unemployment
numbers reported by your government)? Do you live in a country where you
have noticed significant increases in the price of food and energy, even if the
price increases have not been as steep as increases in other parts of the word and
even if these increases are hidden by smart packaging designs that give you less product for the same
price as last year? If the answer to those two questions are yes and yes, then
your country qualifies as not only eligible, but ripe, for riots and civil unrest at some point in
the next 2-3 years because Central Banks have all but ensured that these two
situations will become worse with every passing month.

If soaring food prices haven't happened in your country yet,
they will. The only reason it hasn't happened yet is because your government,
in collusion with bankers, have kicked the can down the road along with efforts
to sell the populace wild fables of economic recovery while the banks in their
nation (i.e, the US) are literally bankrupt but for false reporting standards that allow them to practice alchemy and magically turn losses into earnings.  There have been no solutions implemented,
only concerted, organized efforts between politicians and bankers of hiding the truth from citizens. Thus, the same
nightmarish destruction in the quality of life that governments and Central
Bankers have heaped upon India, Algiers, Tunisia will come to your doorstep at
some point within the next three years. Even Western leaders that typically
fill newspapers and TV with utter nonsense are warning their citizens to take
heed.

Recently, Bank of England governor Mervyn King stated that
British families will see their disposable income disappear as they, in his own
words, pay "the inevitable price" for the ongoing monetary crisis and
begin to suffer the fastest decline in living standards since the 1920's. King
continued to state that savers and "those who behaved prudently" will
pay the largest price as this crisis unfolds.  No, because those who behaved prudently would have stopped listening to bankers like King a long, long time ago and would have long since converted their pounds into gold and silver,  instead of saving pounds. Then they would be okay to deal with this crisis. However, being the
despicable snake (and those are probably much too sweet words with which to
bestow upon him) that he is, King further declared that the Bank of England,
"neither can, nor should try to, prevent the squeeze in living
standards." What he should have disclosed is that he, along with the Bank
of England, the European Central Bank and the Federal Reserve are directly
responsible for the greatest decline in living standards since the 1920's that
will afflict all Brits over the next several years.  King amazingly declared that rising inflation in the UK had
been caused largely by increases in global oil and commodity prices, which is
comparable to saying that the egg laid the chicken instead of the chicken
laying the egg. Commodity prices have risen significantly (despite King and his cronies' best efforts to knock down the price of gold and silver in a bogus paper futures market) and inflation is increasing
because Central Bankers such as himself have been destroying the fiat currencies in
which they are priced and people are losing their CONFIDENCE in these fiat currencies that will at some point, no longer even be worth the price of the digital chip in which they are stored. King further blamed tax rises such as the increase in
VAT introduced in 2011 for the coming massive destruction in living standards for British citizens and promptly
exonerated the Bank of England for this tax increase.  However, anyone that truly understands that bankers rule
governments know that bankers always have a hand in government legislation that raises taxes upon the people.  Without increased taxes, where else is the money to bail out banks again in the future going to come from?

Thus, as the global monetary crisis accelerates in 2011,
this year will be the year we move from the eye of the financial hurricane back
into the hurricane.  Given that the modern educational system 
teaches students absolutely nothing they need to know about surviving the
crisis, after four years most students will only graduate with a mountain of
debt and face a bleak economic landscape. Thus, I firmly believe that setting
aside the money targeted for tuition, books, room and board and investing that
money in gold and silver today (and take advantage of this banker created pullback in gold and silver prices now!) will leave any young adult a thousand times
better prepared to face this crisis in two to four years time than the choice
to enter university or graduate school today.  But I'm not the only one that believes this. The National
Inflation Association also believes this. At the very least, if you have a
child you are sending to college or graduate school next term, do yourself a
favor and finish reading this article. Whether you agree or disagree with me,
at least you will have the information as well as my perspective AND the
perspective of the National Inflation Association to make a proper
decision. 

In a recent US study called “Academically Adrift: Limited
Learning on College Campuses”, researchers studied more than 2,300 students that
attended 29 different US universities. Here is what they concluded:

(1) 45% of the students showed no gains in learning the first
two years of college, and

(2) 36% gained little learning even after four years of
college level courses

even though the average GPA was 3.2 among the sample of
students.

Richard Arum, the author of the study, discovered that
“students [were] able to navigate through [college] quite well with little
effort”. Furthermore, he discovered that many faculty were focused on their own
research with a disdain for teaching many of the introductory freshmen and
sophomore level courses that colleges required of them. The gains in
learning were ascertained by tests that 
measured critical thinking, complex reasoning and writing skills in a
standardized manner.

Of course, other factors outside of the enormous failures of
the US educational system are also responsible for the failures of students to
gain any critical thinking or complex reasoning skills during their years spent
inside institutional academics. There is a plethora of mass entertainment
designed to prevent young adults from noticing that bankers are ruining their
lives and ignoring all the topics that affect their quality of life while
keeping them fixated on events that will eventually have no consequence on
their quality of life. The Jersey Shore, American Idol, the Bachelor, an
18-game NFL season that will extend the nation’s fixation on football for
several more weeks…shall I continue? Arum’s study found that students spend
less time studying today and more time socializing as compared to their peers
from a decade ago and blamed students for deliberately seeking easy courses
full of fluff for their lack of learning in addition to professors and universities
that valued research and money more than teaching. Of course, the question
still persists of "Why do universities even waste students’ time by offering
students courses full of fluff?" And if students really go to college to
socialize, do students really need to waste $30,000 of their parent’s money every
year for the privilege of playing Xbox in thier dorm rooms with their friends?

Though the value derived from institutional academia seems
to be little, this hasn’t prevented the owners of these institutions from
raising tuition prices by 29% over the last four years from $84,940 to $109,172
for a four-year private university degree (Source: the National Inflation
Association). In fact, if people were to view institutional academia as the
money-making business it really is instead of a business of "education and learning", one would likely conclude that in terms of
value for money spent, this business would rank as one of the greatest all
time-scams next to the fractional reserve banking system.

Supporters of the institutional academic system frequently
quote studies that illustrate that a job seeker without a college degree will
earn substantially less than someone with a college degree or that someone without a high
school diploma has a much greater probability of ending up inside the US penal
system than someone that possesses one. Yet, these arguments and conclusions are highly
flawed. The control group in these studies that end up having lower paying jobs
or that end up in prison are those that chose not to pursue education at all.
But what if such studies used a control group of home-schooled children or
children that attended “alternate” institutions of education where they really
learned how money is created and how banking really works instead of the utter
lies that are taught in business school classrooms today? I would fathom to
think that this control group would test much higher in terms of critical
thinking, complex reasoning AND illustrate higher earnings potential after
graduation with the benefit of having little or no debt as compared to their
institutionalized peers (those that attended traditional academic institutions).

Last year I wrote a series entitled the “Astounding Failure
of the US Education System” regarding the very above topics. You may find these
three articles here along with one by the National Inflation Association.

October 21, 2010: JS Kim discusses "The Astounding Failure of the US
Educational System"

October 28, 2010: JS Kim discusses "The Astounding Failure of the US
Educational System, Part 2"

October 29, 2010: JS Kim discusses "The Astounding Failure of the US
Educational System, Part 3 (And Why Entrepreneurship Can Save America)"

January 12, 2011: The NIA discusses the "College Bubble Set to Burst in 2011"

In those above articles, though I concentrated on the
failures of the US education system from a students’ perspective, I also
discussed the astounding successes of the US education system from the
perspective of the very small elite communities that control governments and
countries around the world. The purpose of the educational system as it has
been constructed and implemented in developed countries by elite financiers,
(aka bankers), has never been to foster learning and to promote critical
thinking. It has always been to implement factory like conditions in schools
that kills creativity, intelligence, and critical thinking while promoting
apathy out of boredom, a sheep-herd like mentality that acquiesces to authority,
and an inability to discern reality from fiction.  Today, after revelations of fraud and theft time and time
again as the modus operandi, and not the exception, at the largest banks in the
world, disdain for bankers is at an all time high and very well-deserved. Still,
many Westerners cannot shake themselves from the banker created propaganda
about gold being a “barbarous relic” even as world leaders in Tunisia and Egypt
abscond with massive amounts of gold after their leadership created economic
breakdown in their respective countries.

If one were to study the history of Western education, one
would realize that bankers and the richest financiers of the time comprised the
very small, elite, select group that devised the modern academic system today. If
you believe that bankers never had the community’s best interests at heart for
the past several decades when they sold their customers zero-down, sub-prime, and negative
interest mortgages that they knew their customers would eventually default upon,
asset backed commercial paper (ABCP) and other derivative products that
eventually would lose 50% or more of its value, and stocks in a market they
were rigging and front-running every day with their HFT algorithmic models,
then why in the world would you believe that this very same group of morally
bankrupt people would devise an academic system that was designed to actually
educate and enlighten people? Specifically, if they designed an academic system that actually taught young adults the truths about business operations in business school, wouldn't they be destroying their own livelihoods by exposing to young adults the secrets about the business methods they use to lie, cheat and steal from people every day?

There are far too many people in this world that do not
critically think as the “Academically Adrift” study proved.  After being bombarded with mantras like
“Stay in School” and “Education is Good”, young adults internalize these
mantras and actually believe that they are actually being educated while attending the system that bankers and the elite designed for them. Of course, education
is good, just not the type that you will receive in traditional halls of institutional
academia. While the modern educational system still performs a fine job in
increasing the aptitude and skill level of students that train for certain specialized vocations such
as medicine, engineering, and architecture, I believe that a very large
percentage of the modern educational system achieves nothing more than wasting
four years of a student’s life and increasing the indebtedness of these
students’ parents or the indebtedness of the students themselves. This is not a
conclusion that I draw from speculation but one that I draw from the annals of
history. In the early 1900’s, the Board of Education’s Director of Charity,
Frederick Gates, stated:

"In our
dream, we have limitless resources, and the people yield themselves with perfect
docility to our molding hand. The present educational conventions fade from our
minds; and, unhampered by tradition, we work our own good will upon a grateful
and responsive folk. We shall not try to make these people or any of their
children into philosophers or men of learning or science."

Who founded the Board of Education? Frederick Gates, and
wait for it…John D. Rockefeller of the Rockefeller banking family. If you
really think that an educational system that was molded by the top banking
families in the world will freely provide to you of their own beneficence the
secrets they utilize to gain enormous amounts of wealth in the classrooms of
colleges and universities, then go ahead and waste the more than USD $200,000
it will now cost you in tuition (including room and board) at Harvard University
for that four year degree. Certainly a student does not need to spend USD
$200,000+ of his parent’s money just for the access that a prestigious degree
provides. Thus, the real question becomes, is the ACTUAL KNOWLEDGE gained through the
achievement of that degree worth USD $200,000?  A young adult would be far better prepared to
handle the fast approaching tumultuous years of this global monetary crisis by
skipping school, and investing the full amount that would have been wasted on tuition
in gold and silver. After four years, as long as the student purchased gold and silver during any of the inevitable dips that occur every year, such a student would literally have a
mountain of money to start his or her own business, even fail in his or her
first venture, start a second business, and succeed – and do so all with zero debt.
Thus the answer to the above question is definitively NO.

And during those four years, I strongly advocate the pursuit of education, just
NOT INSTITUTIONAL EDUCATION. Go to the library and read books. Go online and
take some courses for a fraction of the price of a university education. Make
appointments with business leaders and find a mentor and learn from them. Find
an apprenticeship somewhere. All this will be exponentially more invaluable to a young adult's earning potential and critical thinking skills than becoming indoctrinated
with worthless knowledge that the elite wish to impart to them.

Go to “prestigious” universities like Princeton University
and a young impressionable adult may be so unfortunate as to have Paul Krugman fill his or her brains with
lies like he stated on September 2, 2009: “There was nothing in the prevailing
[economic] models suggesting the possibility of the kind of collapse that
happened last year.”  If that was
the case, then how did I predict the 2008 economic collapse well before it
happened? And how did a handful of others around the world predict the 2008
crisis before it happened as well? And how do I know that another more serious
crisis is a near certainty that will likely kick off sometime in 2011 and
extend well into 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015? Paul Krugman failed to see the elephant
in the room that existed in 2006 and that rampaged through the room in 2008
because he subscribes to the economic conceptual nonsense that the world’s
“top” universities inject into the minds of young men and women. Men like Krugman,
have as their purpose, to prevent young adults from becoming “philosophers or
men [and women] of learning or science" because they are richly rewarded by the elite for spreading their disinformation to impressionable minds. To the contrary, those that were able to realize that
most of the economic concepts taught in business schools is utter nonsense were
able to spot the elephant in the room quite clearly, and can still see that the elephant has not left the room today.

If one really believes that the purpose of institutional
academics is to increase critical thinking, then why do SO MANY PEOPLE TODAY
still believe that the global economy is recovering and that US banks are fine
when the majority of them would be declared bankrupt today but for fake FASB
reporting measures that allow them to misreport and lie about their earnings?  If the majority of people today were
critical thinkers, the US consumer confidence index would be at about 10.5
instead of at an eight-month high of 60.6. This only proves that our “modern”
educational system has killed critical thinking. When I attended the University
of Pennsylvania, one of my roommates was attending the Wharton School of
Business. After the first day of class, he excitedly informed me that his
professor told all students on the first day of class that they would not
receive less than a grade of “B” as long as they just showed up to every class. In fact, my roommate laughed as he
told me this story, probably in disbelief of the easiest “B” he would earn in
his life. What is always among the top two concerns of college students that
desire high-paying jobs after graduation? GPA, right? If one can be assured of
a “B” by doing nothing more than showing up to class and sleeping through every
class, what significance does a GPA have? It is ironic that employers continue
to seek candidates with prestigious degrees with high GPAs because this
nonsense feeds into the desires of young adults to attend prestigious
universities and to seek the achievement of high GPAs, all at the cost of true
learning, true development of critical thinking skills, and a massive mountain
of debt that bankers are quite happy you acquired.  But as long as this cycle of non-learning continues, the
elite and their creation of the modern educational system have achieved their
goals. If you ask why I attended a "prestigious" school, the answer was because I graduated years before I finally figured out the system was a scam.

In the NIA article I referenced above, the National
Inflation Association stated that in the near future, there will be “a boom in
online education where Americans take all of their courses over the Internet
from the comfort of their own home at a fraction of the cost of traditional
college.”  I can only hope that
this prediction becomes a reality as young adults in the Western world will be
bankrupted if they continue committing themselves to massive loads of debt in
pursuit of a prestigious degree that will provide little to zero knowledge
about how to successfully deal with the coming second phase of this global
monetary crisis. If you are not attending school to learn a very specialized
skill, then I believe 100% that attending institutional academia will set you
back in your ability to succeed over the next five years of this global
monetary crisis. Even if you need the structure of a traditional academic
institution because you are entering a specialized profession such as medicine
or engineering, I still believe that delaying your education for the next two
to four years and using the money that would have been spent towards tuition,
books, and room and board to invest in gold and silver and/or buy a farm and
plant crops is a far smarter decision that will result in your ability to lead a
decent life after graduation. Central Bankers have deliberately ensured that food and
energy prices will continue to soar in coming years, so at a minimum, spending your time
wisely instead of attending school will ensure that you can eat over the next
several years when Darwin's Survival of the Fittest theory will be on display
for the entire world to see. From my personal experience, I can state one
thing unequivocally and without reservation: “Everything I learned about
succeeding in business, I learned outside of college and graduate programs.”

About the author: JS Kim is the Founder and Managing
Director of SmartKnowledgeU, a fiercely independent research, education and
consulting company that offers online education courses that teach the truth
that traditional business schools refuse to teach their students.

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