[wangwei]

College or University education is more than the "education". It's a way of life that people go through to gain some incredible social experiences that you can't get elsewhere. Now I agree that we always need to improve our education, but for the "college is worthless" because it doesn't help your career type, a great college(not a vocational school) is never for your career, it's for personal growth.

On a different note, do people notice that there are more and more teenagers using HN? I feel like HN is the new Myspace again.

[snitko]

There are plenty of experiences in the world that don't help your career, but rather help you grow personally. College may be one of them. On the other hand, doing things that help your career doesn't mean in any way that you don't grow personally. And so, the question becomes if you are a person who can deal with getting this personal growth without any other motivation or not. If growing personally is just not enough, then college may not be the best option and you may want to seek something else.

Personally, I prefer working on things that satisfy both conditions: 1) make me grow personally 2) help me achieve my business goals. I tried going with only one of those things (just 1 or just 2) and I could never managed to accomplish anything significant this way.

However, I've seen a lot of happy people who were able to do a lot with just one of those conditions.