While women will stay in school to master the ideas of their books and professors, men will drop out to start a company around their own original idea.

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In 2007 the school established the Stevens Institute for Innovation to train students and faculty in how to turn ideas into operating businesses.

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By the time my wife, now Dr. Peggy Bia, and I entered medical school in the late sixties great hopes were emerging, based on ideas like equality, civil rights and social justice.

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On a visit to London's prestigious Bartlett School, Quest takes a crash course in design, lends his ideas to a class project and tries to understand why it takes architects so long to get their hands on a real building.

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And it requires replicating innovative ideas that make class feel engaging and relevant -- because most high school dropouts in a recent study said the reason they dropped out was that they weren't interested in class and they weren't motivated to do their work.

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In the past year her school has invested in two Centers of Excellence, one focusing on leadership for social impact, the other on ideas and the economy.

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It said its aim was to "incorporate these findings with ideas from the local community, and establish a free school that complements the existing secondary schools in the area".

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