The college dropout was an overwhelming commercial and critical success, and West found fans outside hip-hop circles.
The college dropout founded Gateway--until a few years ago known as Gateway 2000--in an Iowa farmhouse with his brother Norm in 1985.
The college dropout quickly gained a reputation as a demanding manager, a brilliant pitchman and someone who seemed to have a knack for knowing with the future would bring.
In the United States, we seem to have our own tradition of the college-dropout-turned-business-mogul.
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Shaw feels students need more rigorous majors to prepare them for the job market, but the late college dropout Steve Jobs pointed to a calligraphy class that he audited as one of his major commercial inspirations.
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Either way, the answer to rising college costs and dropout and debt rates is not to cut from education further or turn people off to college altogether.
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This week, in an email conversation, he set the record straight on his college years (turns out the guy holds two degrees, the dropout story is just a myth), shared some insight into the long-term plan for Skillshare and why traditional education will never be able to keep up with technology.
Adeo Ressi is a college dropout who got into the education business in a global way.
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Abe (Jordan Gelber) is a portly college dropout who lives, at the age of thirty-five, with his parents (Christopher Walken and Mia Farrow) and works for his father, unhappily, in a commercial real-estate company.
We have one of the highest high school dropout rates of any industrialized nation, and half of the students who begin college never finish.
But the future of Indian Country rests on something more: the education we provide our children. (Applause.) We know that Native Americans face some of the lowest matriculation rates and highest high school and college dropout rates.
"Your brain is a muscle, too, " says Newton, a college dropout and former graphic design teacher who was once the science adviser on the Discovery Channel's hit series MythBusters.
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Introduced to Hefner by a friend, Madison was a 22-year-old Hooters waitress and college dropout when she got her first invitation to go clubbing with the Playboy mogul and several Playmates.
Shigeta, a college dropout, started shilling phones via his Hikari Tsushin in 1988 and rapidly grew with the bubble economy.
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