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- dropping out is a positive thing (the implication being that education is either a scam or for dumb people, not smart people like us)
by fwdpropaganda 9y ago
- dropping out is a positive thing (the implication being that education is either a scam or for dumb people, not smart people like us)
- padobson 9y agoThis feels more like an over-correction to the prevailing cultural wisdom that everyone needs a post-secondary education. Contrary thesis to the prevailing wisdom is where a lot of startup fortunes have been made. Hopefully we're about to land in a cultural place where getting an education is seen as getting an education, rather than either a panacea for individual success or a complete waste of time/money for the docile masses.
- fwdpropaganda 9y agoI agree with every word, but at the same time I think a lot of people here on HN like to use hating on education as a humblebrag for how smart they are.