Education VS Success

When we were young, our parents use to tell us the importance of education if we want to have a bright future. What do you think? Is this true?

At a certain point, I agree with the idea that everyone should have a minimal degree of education/common sense...otherwise, the society will be in chaos. But, do we necessarily need higher education to earn a better life? I'm not too sure about that. (Seriously! For most people, we don't even use 50% of what we learnt in school.) The best example I can think of, right now...

William Henry (Bill) Gates - former CEO and current chairman of Microsoft

"Bill and a few other students formed the Lakeside Programmers Group, and nearly spent all of their time on the computer writing programs for various purposes. The group was even banned from the computer for a few weeks for hacking into the security program and altering data on the system. Many of the group members ended up working at Microsoft as programmers. Bill later went onto Harvard University, but dropped out in 1974 to form Microsoft with Paul Allen, who had been a friend of Bill Gates since childhood. Bill Gates had known Steve Ballmer at Harvard, and they worked on programs together for the Altair computer."


Steven Paul (Steve) Jobs - former chief executive of Pixar Animation Studios, former member of the board of directors of Walt Disney, and former CEO of Apple Inc.

"Jobs graduated from Homestead High School in Cupertino, California, in 1972. While in high school, Jobs spent his free time attending various after-school lectures at the Hewlett-Packard Company, where he also worked with Steve Wozniak as a summer employee.
After high school, Jobs attended Reed College for one semester but then dropped out. In 1974, he started going to Homebrew Computer Club meetings with Wozniak and began working for Atari. He saved his money and then traveled to India with a college friend, Daniel Kottke. He returned from India and continued working at Atari."

Beside those two geniuses, I'm sure there are others like them out there. Sometimes, what we need is an innovative idea and perhaps to be given a chance to express ourselves. Then, *POUF* we're a person no one will forget.