Rethinking Motivation In Education Culture shock comes to the classroom in Doha, Qatar, where it's not enough to teach students that education can lead to a better life.
Updated Tue May 1, 2012
Alex Peake's "Code Hero": How To Scale Education The Right Way Thiel Fellow Dale Stephens explains how "Does it scale?" applies to education.
Updated Thu Feb 23, 2012
Like Peter Thiel's Fellows, Sebastian Thrun Dropped Out, Hacked Education, Too What the former Stanford professor-turned-independent educator teaches us about the new online power dynamic.
Updated Fri Feb 10, 2012
To Motivate Students, Make Them Give Away Their Rewards Recently direct motivation systems have been gaining traction. Such systems--from websites to apps to college policies--could help students teach one another and give education a kick in the pants.
Updated Thu Jan 19, 2012
Education's Economics Of Scarcity Colleges are beaches. People are walking and picking up degrees like seashells. As we hand out more and more degrees, each degree becomes less and less valuable. I’m amazed no one has pointed this out.
Updated Tue Nov 29, 2011
Why One Teen Dropped Out And Made Paris His Higher Education A traditional college education--and the thousands of dollars in student debt--may not be for everyone. Thiel Fellow and education disruptor Dale Stephens takes a look at one teen who decided to forgo university and move to France.
Updated Wed Nov 9, 2011
How This College Dropout Wants To Change Education Quitting college at 18 to move to Silicon Valley and pursue your startup is the stuff of Hollywood dreams. Dale Stephens wants to shake up education, one page at a time.
Updated Mon Oct 10, 2011
What Has Being A Thiel Fellow Given Me? Credibility Quitting college at 18 to move to Silicon Valley and pursue your startup is the stuff of Hollywood dreams. Here, Stephens discusses just what he has gained from becoming a Fellow.
Updated Fri Oct 7, 2011
"Hacking Your Education," Coming To A Bookstore Near You Quitting college at 18 to move to Silicon Valley and pursue your startup is the stuff of Hollywood dreams. Here, Thiel Fellow Dale Stephens continues his story--by putting it on the written page.
Updated Thu Aug 18, 2011
Thiel Fellow Dale Stephens Drops Out (Of College), Moves In (To Silicon Valley), And Starts Up (Talent-Scouting RadMatter) Quitting college at 18 to move to Silicon Valley and pursue your startup is the stuff of Hollywood dreams. Here, the first in a series of blog entries for Fast Company by the inaugural class of Thiel Fellows.
Updated Fri Jul 22, 2011
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