”Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.” – Ludwig von Mises
Read what Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame, wrote about education.
As an entrepreneur I’ve known that having a college education can open doors for you, but NOT have a college degree doesn’t stop you from pursuing your dreams.
Here’s a list of tons of people that have never finished school and went on to become successful.
Collegedropouthalloffame.com lists successful people and what they do.
If school is not the issue, what is stopping you?
Here’s a great TED.com speech about creativity and how schools kill it.
Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity.
Enjoy it.
What do you think?
Here’s an interesting article “College: most expensive than ever”, as if it’s the availability of money that is the problem. Has anyone looked at the what you get for what you pay for? Does that mean that book stores can’t supply a “college level” degree of experience at a less costly way or getting a “degree”? How about your local public library, or better yet, get a “library card” from your local community college and digest the books from there. But what is the difference between college and books from Amazon.com or your local Barnes and Noble.
College is more for those that want to work for others and less for entrepreneurship because universities and colleges offer far fewer courses for entrepreneurship. While becoming a doctor, lawyer, biologist, or writer means you can learn at college, it does not stop you from learning on your own about starting your own business and getting the “school of hard knocks” experience rather than grades from teacher. But where are most of the jobs created? In small businesses. School will give you a head full of knowledge, not nearly the experience of failing in real life.
So, you can go to college if you want to, I have, but now that I’ve been I’ve learned more from “life” than I did at college.
It’s all about reading and learning, never about college.
For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head. Benjamin Franklin
Here’s the quote from the web site: “Now HCL’s CEO Vineet Nayar has gone on record with some controversial remarks about the quality of American technology college graduates. Tired of hearing stereotypes about Indian tech grads, Mr. Nayar, speaking before an audience of business partners in New York City, blasted American tech grads as ‘unemployable’.”
The article adds “He elaborated that he views American tech grads as inferior to those from India, China, and Brazil as the Americans only want to ‘get rich’ and dream up ‘the next big thing’. He says students from countries like India, China, and Brazil are more willing to put the effort into ‘boring’ details of tech process and methodology, such as ITIL, Six Sigma, etc.”
As an entrepreneur you can do both, work the details and get rich, but to only “get rich” without doing the work you’ll only have our money taken away by smarter people.
Where is the problem? The “CEO of a major Indian corporation sounds off on what he sees as educational inadequacies” by the American system.
Your thoughts?
After seeing this short video, what are your thoughts? What are you going to do about it?
This was a presentation that was given to a Sony BMG executive in June 2008.
What does it mean for the future of education? Of business? Of learning? Of inventions?
Shifts happen!
