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> He did all this without an undergraduate education I take your point, but I think it serves us to be reminded that formal education isn't the only place that
by nicoburns 4y ago
> He did all this without an undergraduate education
I take your point, but I think it serves us to be reminded that formal education isn't the only place that one can learn things.
- Loughla 4y agoYes, that is the point. But it's super cringe-inducing because this teenager benefits, what we can assume is substantially, from literal generations of formal education in his family.
- svnt 4y agoIs this some strange attempt to align this article with the “college education isn’t necessary” mantra? Like college education isn’t necessary as long as you have college professors for parents? The absurdist continuation is something like: “I’d like to think if I was motivated enough I could retroactively convert my parents from city bus drivers to tenured professors in a lucrative field, then I wouldn’t need a college education”?
- nicoburns 4y agoIt's intended to push back more against "we won't hire anyone without a degree" type sentiments than "you shouldn't bother going to college" type sentiments.