all i ever needed to know i learned in kindergarten

Pullling a Mark Zuckerberg or Steve Jobs or one of these guys, if you will. Without trying to belittle the diploma that I’d received less than a week before, he posited that many talented kids would be better off (and might contribute more to the world) pursuing projects or companies or whatever business endeavors that they were really interested in instead of enduring the confined walls of a university and its limiting course requirements. Essentially, I was trying to stop him from dropping out of college. I reached for the right words to validate the way I had spent my last four years halfway across the country. To give you an idea of what he is like, he taught my little brother (who was four at the time) to respond with “Stick it to the Man” when people asked what he wanted to be when he grew up. My friend, who I love very dearly and consider my own flesh and blood, is very bright but has always hated school because of its arbitrarily bureaucratic hoops. The other day I was hanging out with one of my best friends from high school when we got into a heated argument about the value of an undergraduate college degree.

All i ever needed to know i learned in kindergarten