We see that many of the most successful individuals across the world are either school drop outs with no degrees or any intellectual pursuits of an academic nature.Just to name a few – Bill Gates( Microsoft ) , Larry Ellison ( Oracle ) , Michael Dell ( Dell Comp) , Dhirubhaii Ambani ( Reliance India) were all high school drop outs but that did not stop them from being brilliant and achieving success for themselves and managed to change the world and themselves ….most of the brilliant hollywood actors too are school drop outs !

So this makes one wonder whether academic education or a university degree is really essential or is it the capacity or the personal charisma of a person that makes him succeed no matter where he is. Education no doubt adds on to his calibre to succeed in what he takes up...

We see that many of the most successful individuals across the world are either school drop outs with no degrees or any intellectual pursuits of an academic nature.Just to name a few – Bill Gates( Microsoft ) , Larry Ellison ( Oracle ) , Michael Dell ( Dell Comp) , Dhirubhaii Ambani ( Reliance India) were all high school drop outs but that did not stop them from being brilliant and achieving success for themselves and managed to change the world and themselves ….most of the brilliant hollywood actors too are school drop outs !

So this makes one wonder whether academic education or a university degree is really essential or is it the capacity or the personal charisma of a person that makes him succeed no matter where he is. Education no doubt adds on to his calibre to succeed in what he takes up...

We see that many of the most successful individuals across the world are either school drop outs with no degrees or any intellectual pursuits of an academic nature.Just to name a few – Bill Gates( Microsoft ) , Larry Ellison ( Oracle ) , Michael Dell ( Dell Comp) , Dhirubhaii Ambani ( Reliance India) were all high school drop outs but that did not stop them from being brilliant and achieving success for themselves and managed to change the world and themselves ….most of the brilliant hollywood actors too are school drop outs !

So this makes one wonder whether academic education or a university degree is really essential or is it the capacity or the personal charisma of a person that makes him succeed no matter where he is. Education no doubt adds on to his calibre to succeed in what he takes up...

The persons you named either lived or live a few hundred years ahead of their times and form exceptions rather than the rule. Rabindra Nath Tagore was also one of them.but that did not prevent him from finding his true place under the sun!

We see that many of the most successful individuals across the world are either school drop outs with no degrees or any intellectual pursuits of an academic nature.Just to name a few – Bill Gates( Microsoft ) , Larry Ellison ( Oracle ) , Michael Dell ( Dell Comp) , Dhirubhaii Ambani ( Reliance India) were all high school drop outs but that did not stop them from being brilliant and achieving success for themselves and managed to change the world and themselves ….most of the brilliant hollywood actors too are school drop outs !

So this makes one wonder whether academic education or a university degree is really essential or is it the capacity or the personal charisma of a person that makes him succeed no matter where he is. Education no doubt adds on to his calibre to succeed in what he takes up...

The above mentioned names of people are talented people. Just think what is common between these people. Ofcourse they are not well educated but they sthey all started their own business. A buisnessman dont require the tons of degree, he requires only the ability to take the risk . All of these people took risk in their life to settle the business and luckily it worked out for them. But this is not the case with jobs. U need to have the tone of degree to get the huge salary.Even if a person hes immense talent but no degrees the job opportunity goes away.

The university degrees are necessary for most individuals for entry in a profession or a company. There are talented individuals without high professional qualifications. They also cannot get entry in firms as employees or get in profession like medicine, law. They get success as self employed. For example, Ambani and Bill gates got success as self employed businessmen.

But there is always a way to get success if you have knowledge and experience but not prescribed qualification. For example, if you have knowledge of law but no degree, there is nothing to stop you from writing books and articles on law.. Also, you may give consultancy from chamber and prepare appeals and briefs and engage some other advocate to appear in court.
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The university degrees are necessary for most individuals for entry in a profession or a company. There are talented individuals without high professional qualifications. They also cannot get entry in firms as employees or get in profession like medicine, law. They get success as self employed. For example, Ambani and Bill gates got success as self employed businessmen.

But there is always a way to get success if you have knowledge and experience but not prescribed qualification. For example, if you have knowledge of law but no degree, there is nothing to stop you from writing books and articles on law.. Also, you may give consultancy from chamber and prepare appeals and briefs and engage some other advocate to appear in court.
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Some of those people are even better than the advocates and are able to do everything other than attend courts and submit documents.I suppose the fact that they have no degree makes them even more interested in getting all the relevant information and keeping themselves up to date...