Elon is much more interested in exceptional ability than he is a college education.
“I think colleges are for fun and to prove you can do your chores but they are not for learning.”
“I make sure Tesla recruiting does not have anything that requires University because that’s absurd…but there is a requirement of evidence of exceptional ability.
If you try to do something exceptional you must have evidence of exceptional ability.
I don’t consider going to College evidence of exceptional ability. In fact ideally you dropped out and did something.
Gates is a pretty smart guy, he dropped out. Jobs, pretty smart guy, he dropped out. Larry Ellison, smart guy, he dropped out. Like: Obviously not needed.” [source 7:10]
Clearly great success does not require a piece of paper on the wall.
Of course that’s not to say a College or University degree does not help. They certainly can. However with the great proliferation of quality information from excellent schools and individuals online there are plenty of great alternatives to the traditional model.
Traditionally the schools had a monopoly on information. They had the books. But these days it’s different.
There are plenty of full length lectures from Stanford, Harvard, and a number of other reputable schools.
edX.org is a truly powerful online resource that contains over 3,000 courses from 160 Colleges, many of them among the worlds best, and it’s totally free.
Harvard, Stanford, The University of British Columbia, and the National University of Australia are just a few of these institutions you can learn from for free.
At the time of writing there are 343,710 people learning on edX at this moment.
I’ve taken an edX course from Harvard and found the quality to be exceptional. They use the actual lectures and material from the on campus program.
Learning solutions like Astra Nova, Synthesis and edX are three shining examples of the future of education you can use to learn whatever you want.
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