I was at the graduation ceremony so I was fortunate to hear the entire speech. And from what I'm reading in this thread, many of you missed the point.
First of all, Jobs never encouraged the students to drop out of school. The reason why he even mentioned that he dropped out was because he was telling the audience his life story and the lessons he learned in life. The point of his speech was to tell the students to follow their dreams and not spend their life "living someone else's dream" because life is short. He also mentioned that his dropping into that calligraphy class is the reason why we have the different font option on our computers today. If he hadn't gone to those classes and made the choices that he made, who knows how computers would be like today.
He also said that being fired from Apple was one of the best things that happened to him. I don't see people on this thread dissecting this comment.
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I was at the graduation ceremony so I was fortunate to hear the entire speech. And from what I'm reading in this thread, many of you missed the point.
First of all, Jobs never encouraged the students to drop out of school. The reason why he even mentioned that he dropped out was because he was telling the audience his life story and the lessons he learned in life. The point of his speech was to tell the students to follow their dreams and not spend their life "living someone else's dream" because life is short. He also mentioned that his dropping into that calligraphy class is the reason why we have the different font option on our computers today. If he hadn't gone to those classes and made the choices that he made, who knows how computers would be like today.
He also said that being fired from Apple was one of the best things that happened to him. I don't see people on this thread dissecting this comment.