Sunday, 29 May 2016

Ivy League education or not....

Sometimes you need no Ivy League education to be the best in the market, and Mubarak Muyika's story can confirm that. Muyika is that 20 year old millionaire who turned down Harvard to build his company in Kenya. About Havard, see how the best institutions of higher learning are because they know how to identify and recruit promising talents, even if it means making room for exceptional cases.

But, hello! Look at those not-so-high higher learning institutions that are hellbent on their stiff English and Maths entry requirements, irrespective of the student's inventive and entrepreneurial suitableness. Half their graduates end up been all over the place, wrestling with words and philosophical quotations, disguising the throes of the real world around them with very shifty intellectual arguments.

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