Education: Schools depend on drop outs

There's not one school or college in America that can run one single day without the aid of a boy drop out.

The irony of it. Every school and college depends on a boy drop out to run every day.  No school can operate without the contributions of at least one of the following college drop outs:

Bill Gates - Microsft Windows
Steve Jobs - Apple, iPod
Michael Dell - Dell computer
Larry Ellison - Oracle software
Mike Lazaridis - Blackberry
Shawn Fanning - creator of Napster, and thus music downloads
And it is no coincidence all of these college drop outs are boys.
(photo of Bascom Hall at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, my alma mater.)

For more famous college drop outs, see Wikipedia under "famous college dropouts." 
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Comments

[Judy]

Tom may have misread the title - ALL of the people listed "attended" college and they did "drop out" It's likely that they "received a high level of education before they dropped out. But the point of the article is well taken - the world has benefited by the contributions of these individuals who dropped out of formal college educational programs.

[Tom]

This is a very misleading headline. None of those listed above were school drop-outs. In fact they all went to college and received a high level of education.