Self University: The Price of Tuition Is the Desire to Learn : Your Degree Is a Better Life

by Charles D. Hayes

The caterpillar is condemned to crawl, but the butterfly has the potential to soar above with an all-inclusive view of the world. As humans we complete our caterpillar stage when we reach mature physical growth. If we are to soar like the butterflies, we must do so through the development of our minds.

About the Author

Charles D. Hayes is a self-taught philosopher and one of America’s strongest voices in support of lifelong learning. Promoting the idea that education should be thought of not as something you get but as something you take, his work has been honored by the American Library Association and featured in USA Today, in the UTNE Reader, and on National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation. Hayes’ September University: Summoning Passion for an Unfinished Life has been described as a “must read” for anyone aspiring to a better world. His previous book, The Rapture of Maturity: A Legacy of Lifelong Learning, upholds the importance of seeking truth and serving others to achieve our full potential as human beings. Hayes spent his youth in Texas, and then served as a U.S. Marine and a police officer before embarking on a career in the oil industry. Alaska has been his home for more than 30 years.

Genres: Education, Nonfiction, Self Help, Psychology, Personal Development

Kindle Edition

First published August 1, 1989

Reviews

[NoName · Rating 4 out of 5]

An excellent introduction to those who want to pursue long-life learning , to those who simply don't find any interest in the Universities or Colleges out there but they still want to learn about things and finally to those who who want to find more about themselves and who they really are.
I am all the above and reading such a book , it helped me with having a piece of mind and continue my journey into coming closer to everything that I want to become...
In case you are wondering , the book isn't a propaganda of not attending real College . The author says that" if you want to attend to a School you should pursue it with all the energy and enthusiasm you can muster".

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

So far this book is uncommonly well written and speaks truths to me about education that I've intuited before but that have never before formed into coherent ideas in my mind or been verbally recognized by anyone I've ever spoken with. I think the book can play the role of a map that helps you direct the course of your "education" and discusses the implications of various avenues taken. It also gives an in-depth evaluation of our current archaic, infuriatingly inept education system and how it's influence in our lives ruins us (in a sense) personally and as part of a larger group of people. You probably already have a good idea of whether or not this book would help or interest you, so I'll just quote the author...

"The great paradox of self-education is that when you think you know, you don't; when you know you don't, you do, and the more you learn, the more comfortable you become with how little you know."
Charles D. Hayes

[Mole Mann · Rating 4 out of 5]

A rather good book that teaches how to keep an open mind and how to further (or start) your own self-education.

[Hom Sack · Rating 5 out of 5]

Perceptive, insightful, and inspiring. The last two chapters on advice dated. However, they were right at the time of it's publication in 1989.