jbking @ Wed May 19, 2010 5:46 pm wrote:
The College Dropouts Hall of Fame may have a few for you though it may take some time to comb through the initial data.
Oh, this is great! Thanks!
Computer Science Canada Examples of sucessful/intelligent people who do not have university degrees |
| Author: | deathbow2134 [ Wed May 19, 2010 5:07 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Examples of sucessful/intelligent people who do not have university degrees |
Hello all! Tommorow I will be in a debate about whether it should be mandatory that politicians have a degree or not. So, it would be nice if you guys could help and give me some examples of sucessful and/or intelligent people who do not have a unviersity degree, particually people related to politics and economics. So far, the only person who I can think of is Bill Gates. Any ideas? |
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| Author: | jbking [ Wed May 19, 2010 5:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Examples of sucessful/intelligent people who do not have university degrees |
The College Dropouts Hall of Fame may have a few for you though it may take some time to comb through the initial data. |
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| Author: | deathbow2134 [ Wed May 19, 2010 5:47 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Examples of sucessful/intelligent people who do not have university degrees |
jbking @ Wed May 19, 2010 5:46 pm wrote: The College Dropouts Hall of Fame may have a few for you though it may take some time to comb through the initial data.
Oh, this is great! Thanks! |
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| Author: | DemonWasp [ Wed May 19, 2010 5:50 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Examples of sucessful/intelligent people who do not have university degrees |
You may have to resort to magic... |
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| Author: | Tony [ Wed May 19, 2010 6:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Examples of sucessful/intelligent people who do not have university degrees |
deathbow2134 @ Wed May 19, 2010 5:07 pm wrote: sucessful and/or intelligent people who do not have a unviersity degree...
So far, the only person who I can think of is Bill Gates. Be careful with that statement, as Bill has at least 7 degrees: Quote: Gates has received honorary doctorates from Nyenrode Business Universiteit, Breukelen, The Netherlands, in 2000;[69] the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, in 2002; Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, in 2005; Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in April 2007;[70] Harvard University in June 2007;[71] the Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, in January 2008,[72] and Cambridge University in June 2009[73] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_gates Although they are all honourary degrees and were awarded after his company's success. |
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| Author: | chrisbrown [ Wed May 19, 2010 8:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Examples of sucessful/intelligent people who do not have university degrees |
Tony @ Wed May 19, 2010 6:16 pm wrote: Be careful with that statement, as Bill has at least 7 degrees
You could make a strong argument that a university degree is not a prerequisite for intelligence or success. Also, (if I may): You could also make the argument that intelligence is not a prerequisite for a university degree. G. W. Bush has a Harvard MBA and an Arts degree from Yale. |
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| Author: | wtd [ Wed May 19, 2010 9:11 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Examples of sucessful/intelligent people who do not have university degrees |
Steve Jobs - dropout Steve Wozniak - dropout Larry Ellison - doesn't appear to have graduated from college Michael Dell Richard Branson Henry Ford |
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| Author: | X Abstract X [ Wed May 19, 2010 11:36 pm ] |
| Post subject: | RE:Examples of sucessful/intelligent people who do not have university degrees |
John Carmack |
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| Author: | Tony [ Thu May 20, 2010 12:20 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: RE:Examples of sucessful/intelligent people who do not have university degrees |
There's often a much deeper story to those though wtd @ Wed May 19, 2010 9:11 pm wrote: Steve Jobs - dropout
Steve left because he didn't feel right having his parents foot his tuition costs. Some of the elective classes that he took did have a positive impact on the development of Macintosh computers. Mike Lazaridis -- left Waterloo in 4th year as his Engineering design project was being turned into what now is a BlackBerry. |
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