Why College Is A Ripoff | The Show | Dad Saves America

At one time, a college degree came with the legitimate promise of a better life. For generations of families it was part and parcel with ‘The American Dream.’ Unfortunately, the return on investment isn’t what it used to be.
Today’s guest, Jeff Sandefer, knows this issue inside and out and is working to provide parents with an alternative to educate their children. He’s a successful entrepreneur-turned-business school professor who was considered to be one the best business professors in the country during his time at UT’s McComb School of Business. Later, he went on to found Acton MBA, a tough-as-nails business school that rivaled Harvard and was attended by the likes of Navy Seals and Olympic athletes. He also co-founded Acton Academy, a global network of innovative K-12 schools, alongside his wife Laura Sandefer.
Jeff’s latest project is called “Next Great Adventure,” which is a program to help people of all ages find their calling and live a life of meaning, without bankrupting students in the process.
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Outline:
[0:00] Intro
[2:31] Teenage lessons in working efficiently
[6:43] Jeff’s big break in big business
[12:32] Taking a year off to find a purpose
[14:22] Jeff becomes a top-tier business professor
[21:12] The 7 principles for running a good university
[28:36] What are the real benefits of college?
[33:59] Prestige vs competence
[39:16] Acton MBA was built by refugees from UT
[47:26] College has uses, but it’s mostly fraud
[49:23] The hero’s journey
[51:11] The elements of entrepreneurship
[56:15] You can be in the top 1% of something
[59:42] Transformation gets harder as you age
[1:02:48] Entrepreneurship training for kids
[1:06:23] Would you rather be right or surprised?
[1:08:28] Markets are tools for human flourishing
[1:12:27] “Next Great Adventure”
[1:23:44] Forget the politics and starting fixing problems
[1:27:14] Outro
Dad Saves America is a channel dedicated to celebrating heroic fatherhood while teaching the next generation of fathers strategies they can utilize in parenting their children. We believe strong children come from a strong family. We’ve had many experts in the studio, including Jonathan Haidt, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Troy Kotsur, John Mackey, Ben Askren, and Adam Carolla.
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  • @josereyes1680
    @josereyes1680 Жыл бұрын

    Brother, I love your vision! Lord, pour your heavenly blessings on over and through him.

  • @811MainPage

    @811MainPage

    Жыл бұрын

    Amen. Glory to God 4 people like this with such noble. Not only are the Sandefer's revolutionizing learning in America but they are actively seeking solutions to unify our torn Nation. Lord bless this family and their team 🙏

  • @GR8APE69
    @GR8APE69 Жыл бұрын

    Not that anybody asked, but then again this is the KZread comment section, so 🤷🏻 Here goes: I disagree with you most of the time, probably only finding myself agreeing with or liking what you say 1/4 - 1/3 of the time, BUT I do thoroughly enjoy your podcast and can really appreciate the pragmatic approach you take on most issues. Even though I may disagree with you often, I still have a real appreciation for your opinions and your lack of the histrionics that have come to define contemporary politics. I'm a younger Millennial with some fairly leftward, progressive political opinions, but I was raised in a quite old-fashioned household with a firm but dignified father, so even though my politics have shifted to the left of my parents', I'd like to think I've retained the values of integrity and good moral character that I was raised on. Thanks for these podcasts, they're part of what keeps me a well-rounded person and prevent me from becoming trapped in an echo chamber with either side's group of screwy, nutjob extremists.

  • @JohnPapola

    @JohnPapola

    Жыл бұрын

    This comment made my week. Happy to have you as a viewer/listener Manny! My goal in these shows is to explore issues that I think are important for dads and future dads (and usually everyone else too) to grapple with in the name of helping our kids (and ourselves) discover our potential. I hope I can keep being part of your well-rounding media diet. And I'll need to count on you and other viewers to keep me from collapsing into an echo chamber vortex of bullshit here in the comments.

  • @goldie862
    @goldie862 Жыл бұрын

    Jordan Peterson is starting up an online university. This guy and his department sounds like would be a great fit to join.

  • @fatheroffour6423
    @fatheroffour6423 Жыл бұрын

    Really liked this interview. Agree that the approach and objective of college have changed over the years and giving our kids other perspectives is really important. Wont ever forget a lady who cut my hair, who loved her job, saying how her parents strongly pushed her to get a degree in english, then a masters. Certain things require the degree paper. Get it as cheaply as possible unless it makes financial sense. Totally agree degree pedigree helps only with first job. After that, no one cares… can you provide value and are you good to work with. That is what matters.

  • @suedobson6962
    @suedobson6962 Жыл бұрын

    This was the best, most informative, mind blowing interview I've ever watched! I wish I was 40 years younger, but I've become energized and will actively seek every bit of information I can get from this man. Truly inspirational!

  • @nathaliealcantarana
    @nathaliealcantarana Жыл бұрын

    If you spot a lot of them it does say something about yourself. Ide like to be around that kind of man who has chosen to fight that evil and protect people like me.

  • @christheother9088
    @christheother9088 Жыл бұрын

    Forget politics? How about the people who lost there jobs because of the "politics of jab"? Those who were injured? I wish I could forget it.

  • @JohnPapola

    @JohnPapola

    Жыл бұрын

    Agreed. It's a great example of HL Mencken's view of democracy: the theory that the people know what they want and deserve to get it GOOD AND HARD. Sadly, only 51% of "the people" get to give it good and hard to everyone.

  • @MichaelWilliamsWMA
    @MichaelWilliamsWMA Жыл бұрын

    Enjoyed your talk with Jeff Sandefer. I'm a leader in life learning like Jeff. In 30 seconds, I nudged Harvard & MIT to add low-cost bachelors to their 44+ million students, EdX platform. My goal is to provide "A Community of Successful Life Learning" I'm solving K12/HigherEd/Trade School, problems like learning modalities [Socratic, Learning by doing & experiencing], student motivation, student debt, & Adjunct pay. Parents, please reach out to me, and lets Save America.

  • @chillscrill6116

    @chillscrill6116

    Жыл бұрын

    Why does public education not teach anything about $$$??? People don’t know how it’s made where it comes from an spend their whole lives chasing it… College sells a dream… it’s no longer education… its a product… the same way wit food.. once ur not buy animals or vegetables… ur buying a product not food… does that make sense???

  • @811MainPage

    @811MainPage

    Жыл бұрын

    Where can I find your work? Are you an Acton owner?

  • @MichaelWilliamsWMA

    @MichaelWilliamsWMA

    Жыл бұрын

    @@811MainPage my info is on my KZread channel

  • @mmotsenbocker
    @mmotsenbocker Жыл бұрын

    at 34min 19 sec Jeff points out how universities now lack the pursuit of truth and even teach that truth doesnt even exist anymore. This is a key point to the entire conversation. I would love to see you focus on this point in future videos. This is a major issue because this phenomenon makes or breaks great societies and getting a handle on it merits our utmost attention. Anyone living in ascendent Asia for any length of time begins to appreciate this key to the success of western culture, and how this deleterious change may be the reason for the decline of America into irrelevance.

  • @carolyna.869
    @carolyna.869 Жыл бұрын

    What an incredible interview 👏thank you both!!

  • @humblereloaded
    @humblereloaded2 ай бұрын

    John Taylor Gatto was doing this real time, skin on the game with school kids, without school consent but with parents quiet covert consent. Sending them in trains alone across the state to learn from and interview men and mentors.... Teaching them insane life skills. Teacher of the year 2 years in a a row and teacher of the state. Nothing he did was orthodox. I got to meet and sit with him for an hour once. One of the most fascinating humans ever and easily the Don of education and uncovering the disastrous nature of forced schooling and how anti 'eduction' it was. All his books and lectures are gems. P.s. Great interview. Thank you so much for this. Amazing character in this man.

  • @tribalypredisposed
    @tribalypredisposed Жыл бұрын

    1) There should be universities that are co-ops, owned by the faculty, so they are controlled by those who are responsible for most of the "product," and so the professors invested in making sure the university is doing a good job. 2) There have to be universities where the students are never asked to take classes where the fact of evolution is denied implicitly or explicitly.

  • @zochbuppet448
    @zochbuppet448 Жыл бұрын

    Disingenuous at best. Remember that those who come from families that already have (Jeff Sandefer), will always have and will always be ahead of the pack. Dont go to school, go to a short boot camp (like mine) that will only cost 1/2 the amount the pay for regular university. ...oh and by the way I own such a school. Just wondering who told everyone that they needed to go to a 4 year university? OMG The dude said these days you can become a Engineer without a college degree. No you cannot. If you want to work as a engineer in an engineering company or as an engineer you need to study engineer / Engineering degree. Thats like saying you dont need to go to medical school to become a doctor. My instincts was so right about this guy.

  • @LiseLareau
    @LiseLareau Жыл бұрын

    Great interview

  • @dks13827
    @dks138278 ай бұрын

    Suggestion: show kids documentaries about great inventions and history.

  • @vivianrichards1313
    @vivianrichards13136 ай бұрын

    Colleges are now more concerned with profit and sociopolitical nonsense. I would love it if we could boot politics out of everything except the arena its supposed to be in. There are better and more cost effective ways of getting degrees now outside of the profit/propaganda driven four year colleges and the "prestigious" universities. Honestly, learn the trades and try to learn a couple. We need more people with common sense and actual skill, not more automation or digitization.

  • @AlexisLagos
    @AlexisLagos Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, the luck was that "they begun finding other fields", not that he already had the money an 26 years 😂

  • @chillscrill6116
    @chillscrill6116 Жыл бұрын

    Armando’s intention was to shit on u… u learned then that u never wanted that to happen again…

  • @John-tx5or
    @John-tx5or Жыл бұрын

    Don't Rush. Learn Trades 1st, GO to More than 1 School in 4 years... See AMERICA. TEAM EFFORT... Team AMERICA Should be The Goal, Not Some Underling OverLord Suppressing E Thang Else They Can.

  • @68orangecrate26
    @68orangecrate263 ай бұрын

    No duh…

  • @tracypowell-lucchese8371
    @tracypowell-lucchese8371 Жыл бұрын

    Llll

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