[LS]

The thing about entrepreneurs is that they are self-starters. The more we learn about education, the more we find it is overblown and overvalued. Absolutely, skills are essential. But the greatest entrepreneurs of all time were illiterate, usually discriminated against, and so on.

The Jews, for example, have a history of being the most discriminated-against group on earth, yet prosper everywhere they go. In Malaysia, the Chinese are specifically discriminated against by law, yet they have higher incomes and wealth than Malays. In Chile, Lebanese control the grocery businesses, and on and on. Whites need to pay attention to what they've been saying to blacks for 100 years---that discrimination, while real, is in the long run not as important as motivation, ideas, and faith in yourself.

As to education, we are seeing now that we have developed an OVER educated society, at least for the jobs that are available and need doing. I teach college, and would say at least half of the kids have no business being in college. Most of them, like one of my former students, would be better served to start a business, THEN come back to school when they have a firm idea as to what they need to make their business better.

[marktwain]

Most of them, like one of my former students, would be better served to start a business, THEN come back to school when they have a firm idea as to what they need to make their business better.The other created his own dream of being a missionary in Russia, got the necessary credentials, and is very successfully living the dream, a modern day TripleX (from the movie TripleX, about a gen X style James Bond type spy, for those who don't get the cultural allusion).

These are dynamicly successful people who put in the time and effort to get what they wanted.