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Re: [spiers] Education

Richard,

In a free market, one can NOT get exceptionally wealthy. When the govt is out
of the biz of
market manipulation, competition keeps things changing and distributing with
little chance
of anyone ever getting the leverage necessary to amass mega-wealth. Mega wealth
is only
created when someone either works with or against government policy, and working
against
government policy is not necessarily illegal, as Geo. Soros has plainly stated
that he makes
his billions exploiting stupid government policies.

In a free market one merely supports ones lifestyle with ones work, works every
day at what
one loves, and finds they worry more about enough time than enough money.

Education is probably the #1 area of govt intervention, so the area one can get
the most
wealthy. The sort of community ed site you have here is an example of someone
cutting out
some biz from a city parks and rec department. The hooked on phonics people
made a
killing remediating the foolish "whole language" reading programs of the 80's
and 90's.

If you love education, the place to go is straight after the Ivy league
colleges. No one in
education is so vulnerable as them, nor is so much money concentrated in so few
hands.

On the other hand, if you desire a community ed program like the one you cited,
I would
study the University of Washington Experimental College, it is built on the
medieval model in
which the students pay the instructor directly for the class, and you operate as
a sort of
ticketmaster advertising the course thru a catalog and selling seats but
charging a 'service
fee.' And here again, sure, put the catalog online, but 96% of your
registrations will still come
from a paper catalog distributed in coffee shops, etc, so you must still have a
catalog of
courses.

While I am at it, you may want to join LERN, an org that has all the "how to" on
running an
independent non credit program.

John

On Fri, 2 Jun 2006 21:07:22 -0500, Richard Ingels wrote :

> I thought this was interesting and along the lines of what I was
> thinking, even if it's not a degree.
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> http://www.studioeaustin.com/
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> Richard
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> Compete on Design!
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> www.johnspiers.com

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