Florence Nightingale never attended school

Perhaps most interesting is that revered diplomats like Prime Rosetta Stone outlet Minister of Britain Winston Churchill also have no college degree. Here in the U.S. we have at least four presidents who lead our country without having had the "college experience." When I share this with others, I'm often met with the reaction that I'm taking extreme and unusual cases. The fact is they are not. There are endless examples of successful people who let passion, not college lead them to success. In fact on a more personal note, when I ask those of my generation (I was born in 1968) to think of their parents and grandparents, and other family and friends of the generation prior, they often realize many of them worked in successful careers without college. This is the case for me. My father become a successful Director of Photography popular sit coms and game shows like "Who's The Boss," "Different Strokes," "The Gong Show," "The Dating Game," and "The Newlywed Game." He often worked with my other father, a man passionate about music, who loved his career as a sound engineer on these shows as well as big shows like the "Academy Awards" and the "Grammys." My mother is passionate about her career as an entertainment business manager. My best friend growing Rosetta Stone Japanese up had a father who was a big casting director for a major network. All of them have no college degrees, no college debt, and achieved great success.Sadly, we're bringing up a generation of stressed out, over scheduled kids, who spend their days in school and nights in activities and doing homework with little to no time for themselves. We're telling them they're doing all of this so they can attend a good college that's worth all this investment in time now and debt later but they don't even really know why they're there. Sure we say this will open doors and opportunities, but when they haven't had a chance to determine what door they want to go through, it doesn't really matter if it's open. And, unfortunately, many kids who picked a major unsure of what they really wanted, end up just being shoved through a door because they saw it open and were never even given time to explore the opportunities behind the other doors. When I speak with students, I often find they're like Amy, Carlie, Rosetta Stone Portuguese Jessica and Maria blindly doing as they're told so they can get into college, but they really have no idea what it is they're interested in. Some will say that's what college is for, isn't it? It's a place to figure out what you're interested in. That's sure an expensive way to spend time for kids who don't know what they're interested in. [Rosetta Stone ] Furthermore, why would we wait to college to start doing that? There are usually 17 or more years of learning prior to college. Why not devote more time in those years allowing passion, not just data, to drive learning.