Reading biographies on Benjamin Franklin[1], amongst others, makes me seriously doubt the importance of formal schooling on the amount of success a person has in life.
I think other factors like innate curiosity and developed capacity for work are more important.
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Reading biographies on Benjamin Franklin[1], amongst others, makes me seriously doubt the importance of formal schooling on the amount of success a person has in life.
I think other factors like innate curiosity and developed capacity for work are more important.
[1] Franklin's entire formal schooling consists of 2 years at the Boston Latin School, from which he did not graduate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin#Early_life
I think it's hard to extrapolate over an entire diverse population based on one or even a few examples.