Re:Y Combinator Cuts Ties with Peter Thiel After Ending Part...
by danans on Friday November 17, 2017 @05:20PM
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> Education IS important, but college is just a means, not an end.
It's pretty well understood that both Gates' and Zuckerberg's success is owed in part to their parents' means (pun intended) and what it afforded them early in life, including attendance at elite private schools and living in prosperous, stable communities, and attending, though not graduating from, an elite university.
They are hardly examples of poorer people becoming big successes without college.
The sooner we detach a degree from the concept of “being educated,” the better.
College degree != educated
Many educated people have a college degree but they aren’t educated by virtue of that degree. My dad isn’t a high school graduate who was a precision machinist who built high tolerance devices for NASA. He worked with Dr. Smalley at Rice University and built some incredible things — stuff that led to Smalley’s Nobel prize. He’s hardly uneducated and unable to think critically.
Education IS important, but college is just a means, not an end.