>>[purpleandyellow] william faulkner, f. scott fitzgerald (to name a couple) both dropped out of higher ed because it was wasting their time—they KNEW they were writers—<<

Okay...this is fun...I love anecdotal stuff. Bill Gates also dropped out. He did okay.

So did Fred and Tony; the two guys that asked me last night for a dollar so that they could buy some wine before bedding down at the mission. I guess they'd have told me that they KNEW that education was a waste of time for them as well.