Improving education

Just a thought: Our education system today fails to identify the passion and talent within the child. If the education system could do that early and then provide a learning road for the child’s self motivation to lead him/her on, our country would have a lot more successes. Knowledge can be acquired either inductively or deductively. Those people that tend to be Generalist (i.e. Mgr.s, Director, Supervisors etc.) learn academically, that is to say deductively, big picture first people. Some though have God given talents or interests that allow them to be Specialist; they are better served by allowing their motivation to learni to progress along the path of their interest. All knowledge is interrelated so either direction leads to the maximum information that a mind can absorb.

With the ever increasing complexity of our society we need better educated Generalist and   Specialist, but the education system we have today is short changing the future of both. To improve the system we should not ask those that have made the best out of it, as it is, but ask those that have succeeded in spite of it. We do not have to search far to find them. Drop Outs are leading successes everywhere. Here are a few with whom to start your own list:

S. Daniel Abraham, billionaire founder of Slim-Fast.

Roman Abramovich, richest man in Russia, billionaire.

Ansel Adams, photographer.

Sheldon Adelson, billionaire casino owner.

Ferran Adria, chef. Has been called the world's greatest chef

Ben Affleck, actor, screenwriter.

Miguel Adrover, fashion designer.

Andre Agassi, tennis player, winner of 8 Grand Slam titles.

Christina Aguilera, singer, songwriter

Dennis Albaugh, billionaire founder of pesticide company Albaugh Inc.

Woody Allen, screenwriter, actor, director, and producer.

Wally “Famous” Amos, multimillionaire cookie entrepreneur

Julie Andrews, Oscar-winning actress

Louis Armstrong, jazz musician

Eddy Arnold, country music singer

Cliff Arquette, aka Charlie Weaver. Comedian

John Jacob Astor, multimillionaire businessmanGene Autry, singing cowboy, actor, songwriter, producer, businessman, author, baseball team owner. High school dropout.

THESE ARE JUST A FEW DROP OUTS THAT NAMES START WITH AN “A” FOR A SLIGHTLY LONGER LIST GO TO http://www.collegedropoutshalloffame.com/