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Discussion on: Does College Limit Our Success?

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Kasey Speakman

College just educates you in some of the knowledge that has come before. So that hopefully you can skip some of the trial and error of learning done by your ancestors. It doesn’t make you smarter, just educated.

The mentioned people already had their plans for success. And college wasn’t necessary to accomplish their goals. But a handful of people out of trillions doesn’t make a repeatable pattern.

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hussein cheayto

I second your opinion in the first part.
They are special because they dream big.

But the issue resides in spending 5 or 6 years at Uni just to graduate as an engineer. Shouldn't be shorten to 2 or 3 years?

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Akash Kava

Not everyone will pickup in 2/3 years, shortening duration will make students never understand importance about consistency and trying till you succeed. Their greed of faster success will make them give up sooner and that will harm them in long run.

Right from childhood, journey of 15-20 years of education makes person more responsible.