The Case for Dropping Out of College

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Education, Top Stories   
Published on November 23, 2018

The Case for Dropping Out of College
written by Samuel Knoche   

During the summer, my father asked me whether the money he’d spent to finance my first few years at Fordham University in New York City, one of the more expensive private colleges in the United States, had been well spent. I said yes, which was a lie.

I majored in computer science, a field with good career prospects, and involved myself in several extracurricular clubs. Since I managed to test out of some introductory classes, I might even have been able to graduate a year early—thereby producing a substantial cost savings for my family. But the more I learned about the relationship between formal education and actual learning, the more I wondered why I’d come to Fordham in the first place.

https://quillette.com/2018/11/23/the-case-for-dropping-out-of-college/

[Oceander]

Best thing I did was drop out for a few years.  That experience motivated me mightily to go back and finish up with sterling grades. 

[Wingnut]

"Turn on, tune in, drop out"

[Absalom]

At least the Kid at Fordham learned something;
that a degree is nothing but a credential, like a
Passport that gets you entry and little else.
Consider Aristotle, Plato, Pericles, Archimedes,
Euclid, Sophocles, Julius Caesar, Cicero, Virgil;
to name just a handful.
None had college degrees yet managed to create
Western Civilization.
But just think how deprived these poor things were!

[Oceander]

At least the Kid at Fordham learned something;
that a degree is nothing but a credential, like a
Passport that gets you entry and little else.
Consider Aristotle, Plato, Pericles, Archimedes,
Euclid, Sophocles, Julius Caesar, Cicero, Virgil;
to name just a handful.
None had college degrees yet managed to create
Western Civilization.
But just think how deprived these poor things were!

Keep in mind, they were all incredibly wealthy and privileged (yes, that term does actually have some meaning, that is applicable to folks like this, even if not applicable to most Americans).  Almost all of their compatriots did not do nearly so well, and not for lack of brains or effort.

[Absalom]

Keep in mind, they were all incredibly wealthy and privileged (yes, that term does actually have some meaning, that is applicable to folks like this, even if not applicable to most Americans).  Almost all of their compatriots did not do nearly so well, and not for lack of brains or effort.
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The catalyst for genius has always been self-awareness and motivation,
hardly privilege and wealth; be it in Science (Archimedes, Euclid, Pythagoras,
among many) or Art (Aristophanes, Michelangelo, Shakespeare and the rest).
Additionally the Ancients were self-taught!!!

[Oceander]

Keep in mind, they were all incredibly wealthy and privileged (yes, that term does actually have some meaning, that is applicable to folks like this, even if not applicable to most Americans).  Almost all of their compatriots did not do nearly so well, and not for lack of brains or effort.
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The catalyst for genius has always been self-awareness and motivation,
hardly privilege and wealth; be it in Science (Archimedes, Euclid, Pythagoras,
among many) or Art (Aristophanes, Michelangelo, Shakespeare and the rest).
Additionally the Ancients were self-taught!!!

They had the wealth and luxury to educate themselves, and most of them grew up privileged with family tutors, so they weren’t solely self-taught. Most of their fellow countrymen and women had neither. 

[Absalom]

They had the wealth and luxury to educate themselves, and most of them grew up privileged with family tutors, so they weren’t solely self-taught. Most of their fellow countrymen and women had neither.

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ALL of them were self-motivated to educate themselves and achieve
which fed their genius. The result was Western Civilization!!!!
Suggest you get some help w/your privilege and wealth neurosis.
Good-bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Oceander]

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ALL of them were self-motivated to educate themselves and achieve
which fed their genius. The result was Western Civilization!!!!
Suggest you get some help w/your privilege and wealth neurosis.
Good-bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ahh, so the problem with the rest of them backwards Greeks and romans was that they simply lacked the gumption to become geniuses.   And those damned slaves.  If they’d just had a little more pluck, they’d have been better than Plato. 

/snicker

[thackney]

Best thing I did was drop out for a few years.  That experience motivated me mightily to go back and finish up with sterling grades.

It took me just a summer.  I worked as a grunt on a lineman crew.  I had always worked, but this was true physical labor, working to exhaustion.

Best grades I had in college followed that summer.