A NY Times article claims that college education do not produce what we really need now - the job creator. Yes, I totally agree with this claim, and want to address the problem.
The most compelling sentence from the article is:
"American academia is good at producing writers, literary critics and historians. It is also good at producing professionals with degrees. But we don’t have a shortage of lawyers and professors. America has a shortage of job creators. And the people who create jobs aren’t traditional professionals, but start-up entrepreneurs....Entrepreneurs must embrace failure. I spent the last two years interviewing college dropouts who went on to become millionaires and billionaires. All spoke passionately about the importance of their business failures in leading them to success. Our education system encourages students to play it safe and retreat at the first sign of failure (assuming that any failure will look bad on their college applications and résumés)."
However, those drop outs at least enrolled colleges, and cultivate opportunities for successful business models and networks. So, it seems clear that higher education system provide 'entrepreneurial opportunities' for students. Therefore, I want to say "NO" - not all drop outs can be successful job creators.
We need to ask a different question: How we can educate and develop creative and successful entrepreneurs who will create jobs for our society?
What do you think?
J. C.
Will Dropouts Save America?
By MICHAEL ELLSBERG
Published: October 22, 2011
Michael Ellsberg is the author of “The Education of Millionaires: It’s Not What You Think and It’s Not Too Late.”
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