Albert Einstein said, “in the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity.”

I had children late in life. At 59 years young, my oldest son is 17, his little brother 14. They both are excellent students, are active in choir, are in “gifted classes” due to their academic testing scores and they both….

Hate school. Despite my encouragement, they tell me that almost every day.

It’s not that they don’t enjoy the social aspects, they even enjoy most of their teachers. They just struggle with seeing the point because they know that so little of what they learn will have any practical application during the rest of their lives.

It’s no secret that America has some serious education challenges.

According to the College Board, the average cost of tuition and fees for the 2017–2018 school year was $34,740 at private colleges, $9,970 for state residents at public colleges, and $25,620 for out-of-state residents attending public universities.

Americans also now owe more than $1.53 trillion in student loan debt, with the average student loan debt amount of $37172 and monthly payment of $393.

College borrowers nationwide owe a total of $1.5 trillion in federal student loan debt and college costs continue to rise.

The skyrocketing cost might be worth it for some but more than 40 percent of college graduates take positions out of school that don't require a degree and more than 1 in 5 college grads still aren't working a degree-demanding job a decade after leaving school.

Meanwhile specialized knowledge is more in demand than ever. We have dramatic shortages in areas like skilled trades, healthcare, manufacturing and marketing.

Ironically, much of what’s needed in the marketplace isn’t really taught in college.

Knowing all that I was listening to a webinar last night featuring Tony Robbins, Dean Graziosi & Russel Brunson talking about the need for the knowledge business to adapt to the marketplace. Their message is that we can solve the problem and we already have the resources.

The Knowledge Business Blueprint is a course that they are selling that outlines 3 paths to empower people to help solve the education problem.

If you missed the webinar you can listen to it here for a limited amount of time (till Sunday)

There are 3 paths to building a business in the education business…

• The Expert path

• The Reporter path

• The Knowledge Broker path

In a future post I’ll go into more detail about the 3 but for now just understand that almost everybody at any stage in their life can have enormous success in one (or more) of the 3.

But don’t delay, this replay will disappear this weekend.

People need a better path to the education they need to succeed. Want to help them get it?

Bill Bateman (like Batman with an “E” in the middle)

PS - yes I’m an affiliate of this program and I will be compensated should you choose to use my link to get involved in the mission.