College will kill your entrepreneurial spirit: A 9 year old's foray into startups.

Re:College will kill your entrepreneurial spirit: A 9 year o... by vegashacker on Thursday August 09, 2007 @10:24AM (#40880)

The piece kept me reading, but I couldn't disagree more with this part:

"...College does not turn people into free thinking individuals who will someday have the whole world at their feet. It turns them into worker bees that will spend their lives in cubicles just so long as they get 2 weeks paid vacation time per year."

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Re:College will kill your entrepreneurial spirit: A 9 year o... by stanlee2 on Thursday August 09, 2007 @11:28AM (#40895)

What about it do you disagree with?

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Re:College will kill your entrepreneurial spirit: A 9 year o... by vegashacker on Thursday August 09, 2007 @12:52PM (#40938)

Just that college, for me, was the opposite of this vocational training ground. It was this beautiful, theoretical, pure learning environment that discouraged placing limits on what you could do with your life.

Now, sure, some people enter the cube farm (and stay there) right after college, but I don't think it was college that made those people do that. I think it was everything else (e.g., family, the desire to have material things, the need to be "normal", etc).

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Re:College will kill your entrepreneurial spirit: A 9 year o... by natrius on Thursday August 09, 2007 @01:58PM (#40962)

It depends where you go. My school wasn't like that either, but from what I've heard about a lot of places, it seems pretty accurate.

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