Why I Don't Ditch College: An Entrepreneur's Opinion

by Tyler Mahoney There is an old argument for avoiding higher education: "Bill Gates dropped out of college and he’s one of the richest men in the world." Isn’t that convincing? Along the same lines, many students and parents have noted that Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of college to run Facebook, and have marveled at how successful he is now. Recently, a battery of arguments against attending college have sprouted across the Internet. Columnist James Altucher at Daily Finance wrote "Seven Reasons Not to Send Your Kids to College" and Huffington Post blogger Danny Wong wrote a personal treatise called […]
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