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Steve Jobs In Praise of Dropping Out
atlacatl writes "Wired reports on Steve Jobs giving a graduation speech: 'Jobs, 50, said he attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon but dropped out after only eight months because it was too expensive for his working-class family. He said his real education started when he "dropped in" on whatever classes interested him -- including calligraphy.' The irony: that most students were graduating. I wouldn't invite him for a high school graduation. Imagine all the 'hard' work teachers, parents and guidance counselors put into brainwashing every kid that he/she must go to University." (Jobs was speaking to the graduates at Stanford University.)
Stupid is relative. When you consider all attributes of reality...
Anyway, school is a system of education, it is thought to be an effective one, at least in particular areas of what you call learning. There are many many many so called smart people that either never went to college, went late, or took a few decades. You are obviously stupid when it comes to reality about the role of the university institution. But that is ok, no one is perfect and neither are educational institutions.
Question everything.
Shouldn't the parent post be mod'd flamebait and not insightful? I mean, really ...
KARMA TAG! You're it.
I wish I had mod points so I could label this correctly. Insightful? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
First of all, guarantee you that a college degree is not a good thing for 99.99% of those that even attain one. NO way is it that close to 100% who ever use their degree to a large amount of success. My friend with an economics degree is workin at a bank makin' ~12/hr. I don't have a degree and work as a electronics tech and make twice that.
Or how about a friend of my parents I knew as a kid who has a marine biology degree but works in HR for an amusement park. I could go on about countless other people I know and have met briefly.
-1 flaming asshole is what this really deserved.
No sig for you!!