Or rephrase to: Who needs to go to school to get an education.

An interesting observation! Despite not completing their degree programs, they all qualified to join some of the prestigious colleges in the world. They realised early that they were smart enough and didn't need employment-for that is what the formal education is meant for.

Beware with this kind of evidence: the world is littered with millions of extremely poor college drop outs....and a few billionaire college drop outs.

School worth it? Depends...

For what school costs in Kenya, go, and go until you can't go anymore. If you get a scholarship there or abroad, use it, and go. Learn all you can. Get a graduate degree. Then enter your field. Don't think that Kenyan schools are subpar. They aren't they are fine schools. All that is lacking is the education on how to hustle and take it from the classroom to the street, and to the boardroom, and that is lacking in schools everywhere. That's something you simply learn in the trenches... as long as you believe in yourself and your countrymen and WORK TOGETHER.

For the hundreds of thousands of dollars it costs to go to many schools in the US, eh, you're better off putting that money into land, housing, or something that will appreciate back home. Here, you can easily spend $250,000 on a Bachelors from, say, USC, and come out and make $30k a year... IF you can find a job, and without a green card, you can give that up. Get your toilet paper ready, and prepare to wipe some old Mzungu behinds! Investment-wise, 250k for 30k ain't smart, especially because it will cost you $40k a year to live (hello debt).

Now, if you work your butt off and send money home, where it can go farther, and if you take a few, eh, ahem, risks while abroad and get as much cash as you can, go home and then go to school for a few grand, you've made out well. It's just so very hard to get trapped in the debt cycle here in the US... then comes alcohol, bhangi, and next thing you know, you are on welfare or doing manoki work, begging some Mzungu to marry you for papers. Avoid that, and do like the Russians and Nigerians do and GET MONEY, STAY FOCUSED. To jump in the ghettos made for Acatas, spending all your money trying to impress people back home into thinking you are doing great is a darn shame and a disaster, KCSE scores long past. That's not a pleasant place to be.

Now if you are in a high-paying field, then, that's different. You can go abroad, make 100k a year and live off of 30k, sending the rest home, and then you will have a nice retirement after 20 years IF you can stay focused and not start thinking that you are an Mzungu that needs to drive german cars and live in 4000 sq ft houses. I know a chick that did this after ten years, now living in Lavington and enjoying life. She sold securities for a big investment firm here. And left her school debt, credit cards, loans, etc sitting in the US UNPAID LOLOLOLOL. liquidated, and went home with seven figures... selling securities makes good money here. Smart girl.

And if you are not abroad, listen to all the intelligent advice from all the people here on Wazua. And don't wish to be abroad... it ain't fun wiping old peoples *arses.

Hill

Its erroneous to stop at calling some of them school drop outs. Take Bill Gates for example. There was a lot going for him back then. You dont just get up and decide "I'm not going to college". Your bases must be covered, somehow - in the sense that there's something u've been working towards, or an opportunity that has presented itself.
http://www.ceobraintrust...epreneur-as-risk-taker/

Lets just say, if your father is not rich, very rich, you are not gifted with creativity, you come from kenya where who knows who gets the contracts or funding to push their ideas to the market, then you better be sweating your backside off in a class!

indeed

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_lending

In addition, in the US you can claim bankruptcy every 8 years and legally, legitimately discharge all your debt! This is based on biblical principals! So if it's legal to do every 8 years, how is that theft?

Have you seen the level of debt that people in the US are under? I'm not saying what she did was right. I never said that. I just laughed. But to each their own.

If you had a son or daughter, would you have him or her sit at home instead of attending university and go - argghh, s/he doesn't need a degree, in any case Larry Ellison didn't get one- ?

p.s Steve Ballmer is a billionaire coz HE GOT EMPLOYED