I was briefly Director of Community Life for the TAG Project. I was homeschooling my 2xE sons and moderating a gifted homeschooling list, basically.
Since he was a preschooler, I have told my oldest son he will need to be an entrepreneur. He won't make it as an employee. I tried to enroll him in college classes when he was 13. The college accepted him, but the classes fell through. I think one was full and the other was cancelled.
After that, he told me he really did not want to attend college. He wanted me to keep homeschooling him, even though what he knew in some areas was beyond me, so I wasn't really qualified to teach him per se in some areas. So I became a resource person that fostered his own self education.
Bill Gates is a college drop out. So is Madonna. I used to be able to quote statistics. A fairly high percentage of entrepreneurs can't be arsed to finish a degree program. They are too busy making things happen.
Degrees are about credentialing. Entrepreneurs often take classes for a specific purpose, to learn specific knowledge or skills. Credentials tend to matter less to them than knowledge and skill.
The minute I post this, you can bet someone will rebut it. It isn't true of, say, 90% of entrepreneurs and there are plenty who do have substantial formal education. But the aggregate figures show (or did at one time) that these things are generally true.
It's certainly not just you. Plenty of entrepreneurs describe themselves as mavericks or misfits or similar.
i once heard that most small business owners are either the children of small business owners or small family farmers.
if this is true, perhaps we're in a downward spiral, given historically smaller startup cohorts and the agglomeration of family farms into corporate farms.
Since he was a preschooler, I have told my oldest son he will need to be an entrepreneur. He won't make it as an employee. I tried to enroll him in college classes when he was 13. The college accepted him, but the classes fell through. I think one was full and the other was cancelled.
After that, he told me he really did not want to attend college. He wanted me to keep homeschooling him, even though what he knew in some areas was beyond me, so I wasn't really qualified to teach him per se in some areas. So I became a resource person that fostered his own self education.
Bill Gates is a college drop out. So is Madonna. I used to be able to quote statistics. A fairly high percentage of entrepreneurs can't be arsed to finish a degree program. They are too busy making things happen.
Degrees are about credentialing. Entrepreneurs often take classes for a specific purpose, to learn specific knowledge or skills. Credentials tend to matter less to them than knowledge and skill.
The minute I post this, you can bet someone will rebut it. It isn't true of, say, 90% of entrepreneurs and there are plenty who do have substantial formal education. But the aggregate figures show (or did at one time) that these things are generally true.
It's certainly not just you. Plenty of entrepreneurs describe themselves as mavericks or misfits or similar.