People with more imagination then brains

[faust9]

Well I am sure the 100,000 people who fail and live useless lives because they decided to forego an actual education to pursue their dreams will be happy everyone encouraged them. Of course, there will be that 1 person who actually does get lucky and 1000 other people who will equally fulfill their dreams after taking the normal route and getting an education first.

Education is not a guarantee for success(many truly successful people have zero college or are college drop outs). What do you define as useless? Throughout history, how many inventions have caught on?

The points you made are moot and childish to say the least. College is not a requirement for greatness by any means and your idea(unsubstantiated numbers pulled from your own behind to build a lovely strawman) that being a failure at inventing things somehow leads to a wasted life is backwards. I don't know where you got the idea that "education" automatically comes from college BTW. Only about 25%-30% of Americans acrually hold Bachelors degrees so what does that mean for the other 70-75%? Are they wasting their lives; moreover, what would we use as an educational ranking system if all Americans had BS's?

A person has to find out what they like---what they want to do. I don't think a 19 Y/O really knows what they want to do with the rest of their life personally. Me, I have a BSME and I've never used it. Does that make me one of the "useless"? No. It just means I enjoy other things in life and that I chose the wrong career path at 18 but was too close to the end before I realized how much I hated bending moments and gear trains, and fluid flow.

I think it's rather egotistical of you to start a thread like this and then top it off with a statement like the one quoted above and I'm sure the Woz, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Hershey, Goodyear, or a gaggle of others would disagree with your assessment.

http://www.azcentral.com/families/education/articles/0524dropouts-ON.html

[edit]I'm sure I can find 'dumb' questions threads--at least in my opinion---started by you and the likewise is the same for me. You should keep this in mind IMHO before starting threads attacking others. If you find someones questions "stupid" then don't answer them. Don't read their responses. It's that simple.

 

[Pengwuino]

Well i was waiting for your childish hatred to show its face and i didnt have to wait that long. Do you REALLY think that someone with no or little formal education is going to build his own microprocessor that is otherwise built by mult-million dollar robots designed by a swarm of engineers in a facility costing a billion dollars? Do you really believe someone with no education with chemistry or physics or electronics is going to design a spaceship?

I hardly expect an answer as you've already shown how your only desire on this forum is to badmouth every individual who you might have disagreed with in the past. Please act your age.