Product Description

From the search for meaning to creating your own credentials, Self-University is a liberating, life-centering experience.

From the text:

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.$Q$ Charles D. Hayes

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #231776 in Books
• Published on: 1989-09-01
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 242 pages

Marsha Sinetar, author of $Q$Elegant Choices, Healing Choices
Self-University is a book with a heart, encouraging all of us to think of education as a life-long, self-iniated venture instead of a lifeless, institutionalized affair. Charles Hayes' book will encourage, bring hope and motivation to all of those who yearn for knowledge and an education but who may have forgotten the process begins with one's self, is intrinsic to the self.$Q$

William A. Draves, Executive Director Learning Resources Network,LERN
Self-University is on the crest of a new wave of self-directed learning in this country. It is a book that inspires as well as instructs.

Allen Tough, The Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
A fascinating discussion of self-education, psychology, and our future.

Customer Reviews

Education for All
After reading this book, I became more enlightened and aware that education is, indeed, readily available to anyone who wants it bad enough and that it's not some rare commodity that can only be obtained through a traditional institution or entity. The idea that a lack of financial resources or interest to attend a university doesn't preclude one from becoming educated through independent scholarship is very illuminating. And is an idea to be championed.

Offers an excellent approach to ensuring your career security in the 21st century!
In the realm of many books covering self-directed learning, I would like to single out two books which I have read on this subject.

They are:

- Self University: The Price of Tuition is the Desire to Learn, by Charles Hayes;
- Proving You're Qualified: Strategies for Competent People without College Degrees, by Charles Hayles;

After having spent twenty-four years in the corporate world, I really consider them to be the wisest & most useful books I have ever read on the subject of self-directed learning.

'Self-University' is a heart-warming book. It encourages all of us to think of education as a life-long, self-initiated venture instead of a lifeless, institutionalized affair.

Let me recap the author's catchy metaphor from this book: "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."

'Proving You're Qualified' is a career book for competent people who have learned their jobs, on the job...& yet they are often passed over for promotion for lack of a degree, which has nothing, whatsoever, to do with their performance. This book offers readers a frank discussion of educational merit and actual performance in a workplace caught in the grip of frightening change. It can help you to better understand the nature of power in hierarchies, to gain insight into methods for fighting credentialism, and to save time and money by utilizing alternate methods of adult continuing education.

My favourite chapters from 'Proving You're Qualified' are:

- Chapter 6: Leverage, Options & Choices;
- Chapter 7: Learning to Live with Change;
- Chapter 8: Me, Inc.;

These three chapters alone are worth the price of the entire book!

The above two books are very thought-provoking. Each chapter of the two books are so compelling that you may feel forced to write comments in the margins of the pages as you go along.

To sum up my review, these two wonderful books offer an excellent approach to ensuring your career security in the 21st century.

A key to open a great rich garden.
Read this slowly ...

If you have consideration for yourself read this book.

If you have a great friend, buy him a copy.

If you care very much about people, buy a copy for your public librairy.