I think this is a wonderful alternative to the traditional college experience. They're taught skills that they'll never get anywhere else. Bravo. I probably wouldn't fit in, but if my kids ever told me they wanted to attend here, I would be all for it.

from their website, “Between twelve and fifteen students are admitted each year. Each receives a full scholarship; the college covers the costs of tuition, room, and board for every student offered admission.”

I wish there were more education opportunities like this...

If I had the chance to this instead of my college, I would have gone. ❤️

one of the best stories; all college students should be a part of something like this

I really enjoyed it. The fact that these bright students have chosen this remote location to experience "real life" instead of other places more according with their capacities, it is marvellous to me. I wish I could have had that kind of education. I have none. By the way, I'm glad that now women are allowed too! This experience is very valuable to them, I am completely sure. I guess that most of them are happy with their choice. Congratulations to 60 Minutes Australia to make me find out about the place. Thank you!

My teacher went here. The stories he told us were quite literally unbelievable... I clicked on this to see if they were true. THEY ARE

This feels like a sort of modern-day monasticism. So interesting and compelling.

I was raised on a farm where we were all needed to keep things operational. I learned how to field repair tractor equipment. And I learned how to butcher. And how to clean up barns and pig sties. I went to college to study engineering and worked 20 hr/wk on the factory floor at an engineering firm all school year and 40 hr/wk every summer. These tasks helped me throughout my career in research, in academia and in starting and running my own business. I always sought college students who had real world experience to back up their book learning. The best engineers are those who have no hesitation to get dirty fixing something.

I'm almost 50 years old, don't know what it is but this place is incredibly attractive to me and intriguing! Feel drawn to it!

Reminds me a lot of the concepts of "Folk Education", or what is known as the Grundtvig Programme. Which is very popular in Scandinavia and Germany(probably elsewhere). It's mostly considered a "Saabatical" year, you take during "highschool" (16 - 19), not usually as a college pre-course as done here, but those exist to. I took a year of "Folkehøyskole"(Folk High School) when I was 17-18 and while we didn't grow our own crops, we did have weekly rotating duties like dish cleanup, swabbing one of the classroom and bi-weekly duties for our own dorm-hallway and a meeting of all the residences of said hallway. The academics part wasn't very high stakes, it does ammount to some credits and will help somewhat in university admission. But the courses and study time were more worthwhile if you were really focused and engaged to expand your own field of interest.(unfortunatly for me that was the year I decided to try to go without ADHD meds so *TBFHlllts!*)

What an amazing experience full of life lessons would we all have if we all could this for the first two years of college/uni.

I like the idea wish more schools open up like this

I just found a genie on our Florida beach…my wish was that my grandson and and his best friend could qualify for this two year program… awesome concept. Keep on keeping on ❣️

I like the older cowboys final song. I'll Fly Away 🙂

I visited the place back in 1993. It was great! I had some food, played with the dogs and collected chicken eggs. Probably one of the most memorable days of my life.

This should available to all American students.

I think we need more of these throughout the country. I went to visit different college campuses with my son. I found absolutely appalling that they all looked like vacation resorts with these magnificent gyms and different amenities. Crazy. Kids should go there to learn and end up going to a place that looks more like a vacation spa. No wonder it’s so expensive; that is actually what we are paying for.

Wow! What a wonderful place and opportunity for these young adults. 👏👏👏👏

If I would have known about this college several years ago I would leave Chicago and go their in a heartbeat. We definitely need more colleges like this absolutely

Just look at that sparkle in the young woman's eyes when she talks about the hard work of moving cattle on horseback. I've done it once myself, and it's all I can think of when I daydream

idea i great, it prepares them for life itself and gives basic skills how to do and survive. its more important in future than managing apps or assets or making stuff and not producing anything. great idea.

It’s the simple mind of living that’s worth more than Berkeley good for her

Why the smartest? I'm 57, I wasnt in the high grades, but I would have flourished at a school like this!

Looks like a great place. Very interesting . Thanks for posting.

Looks wonderful! What a beautiful place! What a view on life that is priceless to survival. Knowledge everywhere, from everyone.....nurtures the spirit and soul as one grows with a varied education and breadth of knowledge which is priceless! Kitchen labor and proper cleaning is important! Vital! Work with Grandmas and Grandpas!

This is what school should be we need more of these schools throughout the country not your fancy university’s or even Charter schools

There needs to be more of these, but for high school.

I was surprised to see the students wearing masks when they are in a remote setting, and excursions from the school are rare.

I'm so glad it is now open to women.

There is a wonderful free liberal arts college in Berea, KY. It is very difficult to get into but it's very unique and worth the experience. You work on campus and if ky memory serves me it is a 4 day school week. They offer free music lessons, teaching instruments taught by music student's There is also a similar college in the Ozarks.

An academic pool, of genius!

Woah. Okay, I've been doing a little research (being a HS junior and all that) and this blew my mind. Wow. Dude. Holy hell. This is amazing. I'll come back here and write my thoughts when I can actually articulate myself. This is just awesome.

One does not need to be in this type of isolated ranch to learn about real life experience, life skills, and leadership skills. One can work 20+hrs and still attend a fulltime school, like UC Berkeley, Harvard, and etc. I had to work during all my college years to support myself because I became an orphan before college. I had worked nights and weekends while earning my BA at UCLA and during another 3 &1/2 yrs fulltime intensive graduate degree. I also had worked 40+hrs in my very busy profession during my doctorate. A real life experience and leadership skills come from actually working and living in the real world while dealing with the challenges of real working people outside of the protective college environment. This isolated ranch is still just another school for kids who don't have to work to survive.

Now that would have been for me for sure when I finished school some 30 years ago

Nowadays I would trust one of these students to run my business way before I would ever trust a Berkeley grad!

Fantastic and exciting opportunity to continue doing the work ethics every young people like my grandchildren should go for it

Good for those students for stepping outside the norm and their own comfort zones.

She had a scholarship offer to Berkeley. That means she's smart and hard working. She's gonna be just fine.

I wish I could do this.

Most college students are extremely pampered these days. They whine and cry if they have to take an 8 a.m. class or if the class isn't Basket Weaving 101.

Awesome start after school.

I believe Berea College in Kentucky operates in a similar manner.

When some teacher said something like, 'You can't think about politics without including Marx,' I thought, 'Hey, that's what they said at Berkeley!' I would very much have liked to have seen a critical look at exactly what the academics are - and how much they differ from Berkeley in mindset and the political correctness that you MUST subscribe to (or do as I did and keep your head well down except in 'safe' areas of the campus) or you will earn the wrath of certain professors. I was tremendously blessed at Berkeley with a professor who managed - in a stealthy way that I only recognized decades later, but which has stuck with me like no other lesson - to teach that there is TRUTH, it is objective, and we can know it and demonstrate that it is truth. He had tenure, so he could get away with this, but he knew how to inculcate that fact - that truth IS the same as reality IS - without getting lynched by students or faculty. The robotic students couldn't cope with his classes - because he insisted that we defend every answer, and insisted that 'nobody really cares about your opinions; only about what is true.' They would bail out of his classes in the first few weeks. Likewise the ones who didn't want to work. He was left with students who were hungry for truth (as all humans naturally are), and who didn't even necessarily know WHY they were challenged by his classes. They were determined to succeed in his classes, no matter how hard the intellectual work might be of cutting through the 'my opinion is my truth' crapola and finding REALITY. That one professor made the whole Berkeley experience worthwhile. I took three courses with him and it was only after I became a university teacher myself that it finally clicked and I realized the gift he had given me: the gift of a passion for finding the TRUTH about anything. It's an adventure, seeking truth. I hope I was able to pass it on to at least some of my own students.

I really like this program.

Beautiful!! Hard!! Perfect....Real!!!! Praise God!!!

The best college in America!

Education or free labor? It's not a real college. Life skill?

Kudos to these hard working students. They won't have any problem finding jobs. And because of their hard work and subsequent gainful employment, they will be forced to pay off the debts of other college students who did not work so hard.

I feel like I was cheated on (I think I said that correct, if not, my apologies) when my college readiness teacher never told me there were colleges like this one out there.

Fortunately there's Chesty Puller University for idiots like me.

Wish I went here

If it had been there when I was in school I would have been there for sure

What is it with the American cool kids and not cool kids? Why the categories?

She passed on UC Berkeley? Smart woman! She chose education over indoctrination.

There is a new movement in higher education which is a direct outgrowth of Deep Springs called the micro college movement. If this video spoke to you look into this movement there are a handful of institutions founded in the last decade that are expanding this tradition.

While I would not train the friends and the experiences I gained at Humboldt state university for my undergraduate and graduate education i wish I had had the opportunity to have some of the experiences these young people are getting

awesome, we need this.

¡Órale! Ziani, out of East Los into el rancho 👩🏽‍🌾

Interesting. From the Bay Area and never even heard of it.

Great idea for some!

Excellent....

What leaders came from this college?

Warren Wilson College in North Carolina is another school kind of like this

I don’t think delivering mail compares to all the other jobs. They’re depriving that kid of a lot of learning opportunities.

What a life

Looks like a normal part of growing up to me

ITs so much like Franconia College and Goddard College where I went that I just have to laugh! We did turn out a lot of leaders and a lot of people who are creative, to say the least! LOL!

Fails at Scale and Scope, nice but really just Hopium. Also, college is not just Concerts and Parties and Football Games, a lot of it is just finding yourself just like this place.

Wow interesting.

Maybe every college should be like this...

This is great!

I did the UC thing....good job girl.

Please do a report on Derontae Martin? YOG

Marvelous.

i love everything about this except: no helmets for the horseback riders?

If i am stronger and younger i will go❤️

Must be very competitive to get in...

great 👍 idea 💡💡💡

I would take Berkeley.

BRAVO!

I wonder if they have tests.

Plz, if you know anyone who can stop the special military operation tell them to do so. Let them know that the S.M.O. will cause famine all over Africa and Asia, because of food shortages. Ukraine is a very, very, very important supplier of grain to the entire world and now Ukraine can't currently use a huge portion their farmland because of this absolute madness. Anyway if you know anyone at all who has connections to the Kremlin, let them know this. The lives of hundreds of millions are on the line here and you can help save them by contacting that one person. Anyway have a great day and remember that the special military operation has an impact on us all.

This is not real

This is what kids learn every day in Midwest on ranch or farm they learn how to work..but iffunnythey do this but look down other who live there doing this there hole lives

very nice!!!

Crazy.

Is there a graduate level at this ranch?

We treat the body rigorously so it will not be disobedient to the mind. Seneca

pony ride and berkley. mmhh makes me wonder about that student's background

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Just about everyone has the opportunity to be part of this type of learning. It's called military service!

No video, black screen

this is an exercise in mindset, identity, and productive failure

This is heremtic pedagogy in a very close way; it's not a business as most so called State Universities are.

Doing manual labor is not 'life experience.' Try raising a family. That will teach you to care DEEPLY about the kind of society you are creating. Fixing a tractor or irrigating a field won't make you care if the society is healthy or not. Investing in the future by having kids is what makes people really, deeply concerned about the long-term consequences of their choices and of social policies. When you have children, you care what kind of world they will end up in, and you are less likely to be selfishly focused on what's pleasurable or feels good or reflects well on you personally. Having to apologize to other students because you made dinner late is nothing. Having to apologize to your children because you lost the house or voted for something that would make you rich but destroyed their neighborhood or environment - that's something that teaches you real responsibility.

I wish my friends new how much I would love to be at the free collage with them in Texas. I just don't have the same name I use to have. I have my real name now lol. Sadly I didn't finish my treatment and I am adolescent still lol. Sorry from john doe or now Shawn lol

searching for life and humanity

wow

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