In a speech just this week, Senator John Kerry urged the nations young people to stay in school, tough it out, or else you might end up getting "stuck in Iraq". I guess he was trying to get the point across that your schooling could be a matter of life and death. School is of the utmost importance. But, come on now! Are you really screwed if you, say, don't finish high school?
Here's a list of notable people who are high school dropouts:
Albert Einstein
John D. Rockefeller
Henry Ford
Walt Disney
Abraham Lincoln
Carl Sandburg
Diana, Princess of Wales
Dave Thomas (of "Wendy's fame", not the comedian/actor)
President Martin Van Buren
Andrew Carnegie
John Chancellor
"Colonel" Harlan Sanders (okay, maybe this one's not so notable)
Charles Dickens
George Eastman
Clark Gable
President Andrew Jackson
Ray Kroc (arguably the most successful rags-to-riches business story of all time)
Prime Minister John Major
William Shakespeare
George Bernard Shaw
George Washington
Florence Nightingale
Walt Whitman
Peter Jennings
Sean Connery
Some people are just bound for glory, hard to imagine that graduating high school would have made a difference with these people.
1 comment:
Come on, not a fair comparison.
Those are exceptional people and others had extremely lucky breaks in life.
The majority of Americans are living in both "educational poverty" and "finacial poverty", both are interlinked with each another. Not having the national minium wage increased in the last 10 years or so, while inflation is increasing every year. Which according to Maslow's hierachy of needs, indicates to that people should eat first before getting self actualized.
Real question is, why are people dropping out of school in the first place?... By providing threats of going to an army, never works. In fact it will have the opposite effect. Just like when your parents give to the keys to car and tells you not to speed down the highway with it. All of a sudden... pedal to the metal!.
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