IP: degreeless talent

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 18:26:01 -0400
>To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
>From: "David P. Reed" <dpreed@reed.com>
>Subject: degreeless talent
>
>Is it really important that white boys from the US get degrees?
>
>George Bush is immensely proud of his "C" average, at least it would seem 
>so from his commencement address at Yale.
>
>And Marc Andreesen and Bill Gates both appeared in an article in the NYT 
>or WSJ (I can't remember which) a couple of years ago where they each 
>suggested degrees were unnecessary for high-tech success.
>
>Perhaps it is chauvinistic, but the role models we get here in the US are 
>pretty uninterested in serious technical education.
>
>- David
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