Thursday, January 20, 2005

Apprentice 3: Book vs. Street Smarts

This season will be interesting with the whole idea of who will win, someone with a high school education or a college graduate. The high school grads named their team appropriately "Net Worth" since their total net income is 3 times higher than that of the college grads. Trump said he isn't sure if they are more successful, this coming from a highly educated man who himself has gone bankrupt once. Let me remind you of some college dropouts, does the name Larry Ellison from Oracle ring a bell, Bill Gates, how about Richard Branson a high school dropout who started Virgin.

What really worries Trump about this whole idea was summed up as "did I waste my time" translated did I waste money. This is the reason he refuses to believe the success already obtained by team "Net Worth". What is success then?

It's not the high school education or the college education, the difference is the person. This has been proven many times. People believe that if you didn't pay for it you obviously didn't gain anything…free education, how absurd.