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I think the article was a very one-sided view.

University is needed. Not everyone is an Einstein, a Gates or a Disney. In fact, most of us are Smiths, Joneses, Singhs, Garcias and Zhangs. We are the statistical average. We don't have what it takes to make it to a 7+ figure income on our own, with or without college. As individuals, they did. They had the IQ, or the business savvy, or just the grit and determination to do what it took.

For the rest of us, be we lazy, slow, or uninspired, we have either college or burger-flipping.

College trains the people who teach your kids, the people who design your buildings and those who sell them. They teach the people that fill those big buildings in your city's downtown core. I'd rather be one of those people than the ones that fill the factories in your suburbs. So I go to university. I concede that I will never make seven digits in a year.

I do agree with Gatto that university can squash people with more ambition, and more creativity. University teaches one train of thought, and that train isn't at all revolutionary. School will not teach these people how to take what they already have and turn it into a legendary success. What they need are the lessons learned on one's own, through life.

I would even go so far as to say that many of the successes Gatto talked about had the tools to take what they saw in life around them, and turn it into applicable knowledge. I would also say that the rest of us don't, not to the same degree, and so we go to College to get the simplified version of life. Boiled down and easily digestable.

So what I'm trying to say is... University is an Arrowroot cookie. Either that, or I'm just very hungry.

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