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Re:Fuck college education, start minding your own business i... by okeumeni on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @11:27AM (#433810)
I guess the surge of college dropout IT millionaire’s gets to the head of lot of people. Besides IT and arts in general I don’t know of any field where you can drop out of college and not end up cleaning dishes at local restaurant.

College kids beware, education is the foundation of whatever you want to become in your adult life.

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Re:Fuck college education, start minding your own business i... by strlen on Wednesday January 14, 2009 @04:21PM (#434308)
They're also drop-outs: not people who never went in the first place. Most dropped (and the typical success stories talk about dropping out of graduate school) out because they had something else to run to, not something to run from.
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Re:Fuck college education, start minding your own business i... by ahoyhere on Thursday January 15, 2009 @10:54AM (#435251)
The word "educate" comes from "educe," to pull forth. That's not how universities work any more.

Anyway, you'd be surprised at how many successful people in all kinds of fields do not have a degree, or don't have a degree in the field they're in.

They just don't make the news as often (cough except for Richard Branson cough). You're right that there's a selection bias, but you missed the other selection bias.

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Re:Fuck college education, start minding your own business i... by gravitycop on Thursday January 15, 2009 @10:59AM (#435262)
The word "educate" comes from "educe," to pull forth.

Also related is the word "eduction", as in "the eduction of relations and correlates", Charles Spearman's definition of acting intelligence (1927). http://www.google.com/search?q=eduction+relations+correlates...

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