Creative Class » Michael Dell http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class The source on how we live, work and play Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:54:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 World’s Richest Dropouts http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class/2008/08/27/worlds-richest-dropouts/ http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class/2008/08/27/worlds-richest-dropouts/#comments Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:45:53 +0000 Richard Florida http://www.creativeclass.com/_v3/creative_class/?p=2588

Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Richard Branson. According to this story in Forbes, 73 of the world’s 1,125 billionaires dropped out of school along the way. An op-ed in the Wall Street Journal reports on research that says preschool is counterproductive – keep the kids home with mom and dad longer. Finland, where kids start school at seven, is seen as a model of education. Peter Drucker famously said that the resarch university would not survive the shift to knowledge-based capitalism.

So, do we need less school, or different kinds of school, or what?

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