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Zak Slayback

entrepreneur and communicator

Praxis

Zak Slayback is an entrepreneur and communicator focusing on issues of education, innovation and social change. He’s the author of the 2016 Amazon best-seller, The End of School: Reclaiming Education from the Classroom and is a contributor in countless other publications. He regularly speaks on issues of learning, social change, innovation, and the changing jobs landscape.
He is also a founding team member of Praxis.

Blog Posts

What is college good for?

January 9, 2017
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Education

There’s an old saying that you go to college to get more knowledge. I dare you to test this with any group of college students. I have, and the results tell a different story. Go to a room full of students at any college in the country — a community college, a commuter school, a state university, or an Ivy League university — and ask the students the following question: How many of you would spend the time you are spending, pay the money you are paying, and do the things you have to do as a student if at the end of your time at this university, you wouldn’t receive a degree? You would still