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Region: Capitalist Paradise
You got that right. Most of today's institutes of "higher learning" are cesspools of progressive idealism more interested in teaching socialist garbage and what students should be thinking rather then how to think and real world knowledge.
Just for grins I practiced my Google-Fu. Check these out:
http://www.collegedropoutshalloffame.com/
http://www.businessinsider.com/most-successful-college-droputs-2013-9?op=1
http://www.businessinsider.com/top-100-entrepreneurs-who-made-millions-without-a-college-degree-2011-1
http://www.interesticle.com/entertainment/10-richest-people-who-did-not-finish-college/
http://www.fastcompany.com/3030631/hit-the-ground-running/10-famous-founders-who-didnt-graduate-from-college
http://www.buzzfeed.com/ashleyperez/23-famous-dropouts-who-turned-out-just-fine#.egWpdORdx
https://overmanwarrior.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/successful-people-that-didnt-go-to-college/
http://elitedaily.com/news/business/100-top-entrepreneurs-succeeded-college-degree/
There are lots more pages of examples of people did not need the college to reach the top. People from Lincoln to Warren Buffet bagged the higher education route and did their own thing. Feel free to dig further if you feel the need. Clearly an ivy league diploma is not essential to success or even making the big time. It never has been. It is all about the person going for the gold. If it is not the right person, the gold cannot be reached. It doesn't matter how much education they have. It doesn't matter if they go for the small gold like a neighborhood bar or big time gold like Harpo Productions (Oprah). It all depends on who is driving the effort. At best, the school they went to may offer some short cuts to the goal, but in cannot give people what it takes to make the grade.
It is certainly true in my industry.