Hi guys,
So I got a question what is your opinion at school. Online I often see entrepreneurs bashing school saying stuff like “A students work for C students” and stories about how people are making million dollar businesses being high school or college dropouts and school sucks and it does nothing for you and yada yada. However in my real life I’ve noticed the most successful entrepreneurs tend to be people who gone to school and who give it at least some value.
Personally, I’ll admit I just love learning and I did pretty well in high school ( like top 10 percentile on SATs wel) and experimentation on concepts. I also had really good teachers to help me out who gave me a lot of wisdom, so I might be cheating a little but I never felt that school was as bad as people made it sound. I’m not saying school is perfect or doesn’t need and hell I’m uneven an entrepreneur ( yet ).
But I’m curious do you buy into the school sucks garbage or is it just an online thing only?
Learning is the most important. School provides a structured environment for learning, as well as accreditation. I personally find self-learning far more efficient than school. But at the same time having a degree changes people’s perception of you and if other people have better perceptions of you, that can make the social aspects of doing business easier.
You have to look at the conflating variables as well. People who go to good universities are from richer backgrounds on average and this means they have more support and fewer problems at the very early stages of building a business.
I worked in the trades and now I’m doing part-time work to pay my bills while improving my programming skills. I just signed up to go back to university and I find that much of it is just slogging through stuff without much immediate benefit, and perhaps dubious long-term benefit. Certain types of universities may provide you with support or at least a good environment for building a business, but I would guess those are hard to get into.