Why Bill Gates Never Finished Harvard
Mostly he didn’t need to. He knew then that Harvard was only getting in the way of his learning.
Much as the public school gets in the way of kids learning. And they drop out.
How many of you ever think of the fact that our public school system is just one huge entitlement paid for mostly by taxes on the upper middle classes, many of whom don’t even have kids in the public schools?
Now schooling being an entitlement there is the danger, as in all entitlement programs, that the stated goals of the providers and spokespeople, in this case the educators, will not always, nor even in most instances, be accepted, let alone understood or acted upon responsibly by the beneficiaries.
For kids in school by and large do not take principal responsibility for their own learning, no more than do “welfare” recipients for their own lives.
Bill Gates left Harvard to take on the responsibility for his own learning and Microsoft was the result.
Just recently Bill Gates in a “talk” at the Aspen Ideas Festival, perhaps remembering his own situation decades ago, said that kids needed only to want to learn, and then occasions for their learning, given the internet and the number of “schools” or learning opportunities freely available to them online, such as the Khan Academy of which he spoke, will do what the school entitlement failed to do, and he or she will do what they both were genetically programed to do and learn.
