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deathbow2134

Wed May 19, 2010 5:07 pm


Examples of sucessful/intelligent people who do not have university degrees

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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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jbking

Wed May 19, 2010 5:46 pm


Re: Examples of sucessful/intelligent people who do not have university degrees

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[url=http://www.collegedropoutshalloffame.com/]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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deathbow2134

Wed May 19, 2010 5:47 pm


Re: Examples of sucessful/intelligent people who do not have university degrees

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Oh, this is great! Thanks!  :D


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DemonWasp

Wed May 19, 2010 5:50 pm


RE:Examples of sucessful/intelligent people who do not have university degrees

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[url=http://www.google.ca/search?q=list+of+successful+people+without+degrees]You may have to resort to magic...


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Tony

Wed May 19, 2010 6:16 pm


Re: Examples of sucessful/intelligent people who do not have university degrees

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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:


Gates has received honorary doctorates from Nyenrode Business Universiteit, Breukelen, The Netherlands, in 2000;
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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chrisbrown

Wed May 19, 2010 8:29 pm


Re: Examples of sucessful/intelligent people who do not have university degrees

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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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wtd

Wed May 19, 2010 9:11 pm


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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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X Abstract X

Wed May 19, 2010 11:36 pm


RE:Examples of sucessful/intelligent people who do not have university degrees

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John Carmack


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Tony

Thu May 20, 2010 12:20 am


Re: RE:Examples of sucessful/intelligent people who do not have university degrees

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There's often a much deeper story to those though
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.