Yeah, people running/founding companies might drop out of school to do so, the people that they're directing, however, are engineers with graduate degrees.
Stay in school. The idea that articles like this perpetuate "Lose pounds NOW and eat whatever you want!" errr... I mean "Commonly accepted fact of life is incorrect! You're Harry Potter!" is a bad one. Stay in school. Get your degree.
No, high school dropouts won't "save America", people who figure out an economic system that can function in a post-industrial economy will.
Depending on what the business is, dropouts might be just as capable as graduates. If the post-industrial economy demands more hairdressers, cooks, and barristas, then the ability to make a low-cal hamburger could be more useful than the ability to write a 3,000 word essay on why Hitler was possibly not solely responsible for WWII, but still a bad person (or whatever kids in college do these days). It depends on the course, and the student.
That said, a degree in a technical field from a good but inexpensive college will always be worth it.
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Yeah, people running/founding companies might drop out of school to do so, the people that they're directing, however, are engineers with graduate degrees.
Stay in school. The idea that articles like this perpetuate "Lose pounds NOW and eat whatever you want!" errr... I mean "Commonly accepted fact of life is incorrect! You're Harry Potter!" is a bad one. Stay in school. Get your degree.
No, high school dropouts won't "save America", people who figure out an economic system that can function in a post-industrial economy will.
I guess it was taken too far, but the main point is that school doesn't teach you a lot of really important skills you need to succeed.
I have no intention of dropping of school until I get a degree, but I also know that I will have to learn a lot of things that school won't teach me.
How many schools are actively teaching how to function in a post-industrial economy? Not many, I'm guessing.
My 100k college education didn't teach sales...which is kind of everything. If you can't sell yourself or your ideas, what good is your education.
Depending on what the business is, dropouts might be just as capable as graduates. If the post-industrial economy demands more hairdressers, cooks, and barristas, then the ability to make a low-cal hamburger could be more useful than the ability to write a 3,000 word essay on why Hitler was possibly not solely responsible for WWII, but still a bad person (or whatever kids in college do these days). It depends on the course, and the student.
That said, a degree in a technical field from a good but inexpensive college will always be worth it.