College education has long been the most common way of making one educated and shaping a better life. But many college graduates today cannot thrive in life because they were merely schooling, not learning while going to college. Going through social distancing due to COVID 19 for about a month, I found reading very effective to help me manage stay-at-home recommendations. Being not so obliged to interact as intensively as I used to with the outside world, I have greater opportunity to read new books and articles online or reread dusty books that have been kept on the shelf. Some books I found interesting were the biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Thomas Alfa Edison, Sri Pudjiastuti, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg. One of the reasons is that they teach me three similar interesting facts concerning education. First of all, these six great figures either attended very little formal school or did not graduate from college. Lincoln attended formal school only for about...
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