No, actually dropouts won't save America.

I find the point of this article to be completely false. Not going to college would make you more successful than if you did? I don’t think so. College is defined as an institution of higher learning that provides an education and degrees; an education that, if not received, would not allow anyone, from common folk to billionaires, to be able to achieve success. Donald Trump is an obvious successful entrepreneur. Donald Trump is a graduate of the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in economics. Judging the content of this article, the author would discredit Trump’s degree saying he would have been better off without it. However, if Trump didn’t receive his economics degree, how would he know what stocks to invest in? How would he choose where to put his hotels? How would he know which hotels to buy and make his own? Obviously he wouldn’t know. College degrees are seen as something far from illegitimate. They are seen as a symbol of hard work, determination, tenacity, and success. Any employer interviewing prospects, informal or not, would rather a person that has a degree over those who don’t. In fact, in an article by the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, it is said that two thirds of employers require a college degree. Therefore, if everyone decided to drop-out of school, as the article suggested, two-thirds of Americans would be out of the job. Also, the examples that the author uses to build his argument, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates, shouldn’t be credited towards his cause. Yes, all these men did drop out of college, and yes all these men did go on to achieve many things and succeed greatly in life; however, it wasn’t because they dropped out of college. It was because their ideas were so innovative and so before their time that no college would have had a class that related to and contributed to their ideas. Because of the countless hours of planning and organizing, college classes can’t be instated the second they are thought of in order to be effective. The author’s reasoning to this outrageous claim isn’t sufficient enough to change my mind on the matter; rather it makes me sway even farther to his opposition.