I agree completely. I am very fortunate to have been taught a young age on the importance of learning how to learn and is something I was able to work out in my

I agree completely. I am very fortunate to have been taught a young age on the importance of learning how to learn and is something I was able to work out in my early teens when life is a lot simpler. I absolutely ate up university because I discovered that I loved reading textbooks and would go to the library all the time and pickup advanced books in my field and read them. Going to lectures was then a nice way to fill in the missing gaps. I have found that all the successful people I know had a similar approach to learning. Instead of being complacent with education, they made it work for them, whatever approach that may be. A crappy professor would be fixed by either going to a different lecturer, seeing the professor after hours, discussing the subjects with upper years, going to the library, and so on. Basically, they took control of their education and made it work. Reading the biographies of all the people mentioned in the article, I get the feeling they were like that as well. The fact they dropped out is almost completely irrelevant to their success.