Originally Posted by
timmy c
A short list of a few people who managed without a college degree…
Maya Angelou, Billy Bean, Glenn Beck, Richard Branson, Herbert Brown (Nobel prize-winning chemist), James H. Clark, Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), Grover Cleveland, Walter Cronkite, Michael Dell, Charles Dickens, Walt Disney, George Eastman, Larry Ellison, Bobby Fischer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Henry Ford, Robert Frost, R. Buckminster Fuller, Bill Gates, John Glenn, Barry Goldwater, Sean Hannity, William Randolph Hearst, Jane Jacobs, Peter Jennings, Steve Jobs, Donna Karan, Ray Kroc, Ralph Lauren, Jack London, Susan Lyne, John Mackey, Michael Moore, Elon Musk, David Neeleman, Jack Nelson, George Orwell, David Plouffe, Wolfgang Puck, Rachael Ray, John D. Rockefeller Sr., Theodore Roosevelt, Karl Rove, William Safire, Vidal Sassoon, Steven Spielberg, Ted Turner, Theodore Waitt, Alexander Wang, Sidney Weinberg, Frank Lloyd Wright, Jerry Yang, Mark Zuckerberg and even J.B Fuqua!
The point of this list isn’t to disparage a college education, but to point out that the road to success doesn’t have to travel down the narrow path of college graduation. Every individual needs to access their own situation and take the path that fits them best. Greg Oden, and any other athlete that leaves college, should be respected for whatever decision they make. In the end, they are the ones that have the most to gain/lose.