Do Successful People Need A Formal Education?
As young kids, it is drilled into our heads that we need to do well in school and get into a good college, and by getting a degree we will be able to get a good job. All kids are put through the long process of a formal education from the early age of about five whether they like it or not. Most kids start from pre-K or kindergarten and gradually advance through each grade – aside from the very smart kids who skip a grade or two – until twelfth grade when all high school students are expected to apply for colleges and continue their studies in specified fields of their choice. As an eleventh grader, I am always being told that I need to get good grades so that I will be accepted into a decent college and get a reliable job. From a young age, children in school are constantly told and expected to go to college and receive nearly two decades of formal education so that they can receive a college degree. And most people actually do nee...