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Originally posted by: glace-bleue
per ek Bill Gates ke success ke peeche...there must be a million Bill Gates who must have failed because they dropped out of college...I have a big problem with these rosy stories...because an impressionable mind is looking at the rosy pic...and not thinking about what if they don't succeed...People should never boast about how they succeeded...and oh I dropped out of college...oh I am high school fail...no its wrong...u r a celebrity and people are listening to what you are saying and may want to follow ur footsteps...tell them that education is important...there are a million uneducated who fail in life...for every one Bill Gate who succeeds,
Bill Gates has said himself that he doesn't like being used as an example to put down education. He has stated that he actually had enough credits to graduate from Harvard but he didn't organize it properly or he could have gotten the formal degree. At the time he was too focused on working on the new computing industry. He's a huge believer in education and has said many times that he spends his free time even now taking online university courses.
Also Bill Gates was extremely intelligent and got into Harvard and was working on pathbreaking technology when average people are still trying to pass their classes. Most average people are not Bill Gates or Steve Jobs and it's delusional to use their example when not even the smallest percent of average people have their brains or skills. This is just a facile way to make yourself feel better - "oh Bill Gates also doesn't have a degree."
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