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April 14, 2011 03:42 am GMT

Living the Knowledge Life: A Thiel Fellowship Finalist's Response

Editor's note: This post is a response to an ongoing educational debate over the efficacy of Peter Thiel's fellowship, which encourages young entrepreneurs to "stop out" of school. The post addresses Vivek Wadhwa's post "Friends Don't Let Friends Take Education Advice From Peter Thiel" and Sarah Lacy's "Peter Thiel: We're in a Bubble and It's Not the Internet. It's Higher Education."Dale J. Stephens is a 19-year-old educational deviant and entrepreneur leading UnCollege, a social movement supporting self-directed higher education. He's working on building a platform to validate lifelong learning.

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