BFU -- Accept No Substitutes

Actually there are no reasonable substitutes.

BFU is student-directed learning, the most efficient route to wisdom and understanding.

BFU is just a tool, a catalyst to empower your desire to achieve meaning in life. Self-directed, interest-based learning can profoundly enable excellence.

The substitutes you are offered against directing your own learning are the Frankenthoughts of industrial age formal schools. To discern their value to your life's passions consider their dominate marketing claims.

• "You need to do well in grade school so you can do well in high school."

• "You need to do well in high school so you can go to college."

• "You need to do well in college so you can start a good career."

Is that how you want to invest your life? Getting through college to get a job? Then getting through jobs to get retirement? Have you asked yourself about the difference between "what should I be doing?" and "what in my heart do I want to do?"

Think of all the professional careers that are now being lost to technology or lower cost providers. I recently had an initial consultation with a specialist physician on the phone. I was at his office, he could have been half a world away.

How long before they do surgery remotely, or by robot? The technology already exists or can be created by entrepreneurs. All that stops it are regulatory hurdles local doctors have captive bureaucrats draft to protect their home turf. No other profession seems to have this level of protection from competition, it won't last forever.

Decades of your life can be spent entering a career with all the promise of buggy whip specialist. Your school is not likely to tell you to quit studying a soon to be obsolete field; segmenting and dispensing knowledge is the only business they know (besides asking for more money).

You can not make a diminishing career option more valuable - the longer you stay with it the more you lose and the harder it will be to leave. You need to chart your own course and start a new journey.

What has no substitute is making yourself more valuable.

• Become a life long learner - because you have re-discovered how to love learning.

• Learn how to quit - if you are in a hole, stop digging - if the boat is sinking, get off.

• Commit - to an adaptive general life view, determined to remain flexible within it.

Everyone has a different idea of what you should do. Ultimately you will decide on your own success in life. I can't picture you saying "My life has been a success because I always conformed to others expectations."

Become a jack of all trades, and a master of one. Which one? By becoming a generalist first you increase your odds of finding that one passion that will ignite your quest for mastery.

BFU is student directed learning for visionaries and entrepreneurs.

The only satisfying success will be one you define, the only route is to self-direct your own life.

Your knowledge of an alternative to a life molded by others offers you choice. If BFU represents your journey from self discovery to self determination how could there be an acceptable substitute?

You may as well register for BFU - at no charge - right now. If you chose the satisfaction of pursuing wisdom and understanding on your own terms, you have accepted the BFU concept for which there is no substitute.


Live Your Own Life!

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How To Take A Class

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Bastiat Free University is a different type of higher education learning experience.

Self Directed Learning - You can rediscover pleasure in learning.

• register at BFU (for free)
• select course
• read the introduction file
• if you are interested -
  
• acquire and read the course books
  
• read PDF and HTML course work listed

To reinforce the reading, at the end of each chapter and PDF file you will create a multiple choice question that reflects what you discovered in the course work. There are instructions in the introduction file. Subscribe to our RSS feed to keep up to date.

If you have trouble finding the course work:

• login
• under General Menu>My courses select your registered course
  
• next to campus - select >CLASS1
• and now select >course documents
  

If you are still having difficulty - please contact us and let us know what software you are using, ie: Windows XP with the Opera browser. We will try to duplicate any problem and fix it.

Most courses will also require a final essay that is to be posted to the class forum for peer review.

If a degree is important to you, there is a one time fee of US$75.00 for administration of your enrollment and a $15.00/unit fee for oversight and review of the course work. Most classes are three units, therefore US$45.00.

You can do all the work for yourself and never send us a US cent. The materials are there, use them. We would of course appreciate a donation if you can afford one.

Do not to spend years seeking a degree just to get a job.


The key as society changes will be: your knowledge, adaptability, integrity, and action.

The above attributes are becoming more important than a diploma.


Rediscover the pleasure of self directed learning.

Let learning become part of your life just as it was in your past; - an all day, every day, all life adventure.

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