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I guess the surge of college dropout IT millionaire’s gets to the head of lot of people. Besides IT and arts in general I don’t know of any field where you can
by okeumeni 18y ago
I guess the surge of college dropout IT millionaire’s gets to the head of lot of people. Besides IT and arts in general I don’t know of any field where you can drop out of college and not end up cleaning dishes at local restaurant.
College kids beware, education is the foundation of whatever you want to become in your adult life.
- strlen 18y agoThey're also drop-outs: not people who never went in the first place. Most dropped (and the typical success stories talk about dropping out of graduate school) out because they had something else to run to, not something to run from.
- ahoyhere 18y agoThe word "educate" comes from "educe," to pull forth. That's not how universities work any more. Anyway, you'd be surprised at how many successful people in all kinds of fields do not have a degree, or don't have a degree in the field they're in. They just don't make the news as often (cough except for Richard Branson cough). You're right that there's a selection bias, but you missed the other selection bias.
- gravitycop 18y agoThe word "educate" comes from "educe," to pull forth. Also related is the word "eduction", as in "the eduction of relations and correlates", Charles Spearman's definition of acting intelligence (1927). http://www.google.com/search?q=eduction+relations+correlates+spearman http://www.google.com/search?q=eduction+relations+correlates...