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Re:Don't Glorify Dropping Out by klbarry on Friday December 17, 2010 @01:00PM (#2017023)
It would be amazing if there was similar financial support and culture around some other structured success environment - imagine $100,000 to spend learning a craft? You could become a god in four years of concentration, not worrying about a career.
Re:Don't Glorify Dropping Out by TomOfTTB on Friday December 17, 2010 @01:12PM (#2017079)
It would be interesting if someone could combine the two. Colleges give experience credit all the time. I wonder if an accredited institution could work with a company like Y-Combinator (which provides mentoring anyway) to create a business program that awarded a degree for going through a program in which you create a startup.

There would certainly have to be gen ed considerations but Universities do those online now so it wouldn't be hard to make them available.