I think he has dyslexia. It would explain a lot about him. He probably spent his whole life living in shame about his inability to read properly.

Dyslexia doesn't have to be crippling (just look at Sir Richard Branson) but it's important to recognize and deal with the issues rather than let it fester.

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He does have a point. As @braindonut said there isn't an exclusive relationship between having a degree and being educated.

Out of the graduates I've worked with most of their experiences are described in this video. Students follow the orders of the curriculum and end up burnt out and disinterested.

I think a lot of the problem is in school guidance and social attitudes towards what education actually is. Most see and communicate it as a necessary tool to gain employment opportunities. Because of this, students choose their higher education subjects based on job outcomes, so a hell of a lot of students aren't actually interested in their classes.

Then numbers led government set targets for education institutions. When measurements are made into goals they stop being measurements. This leads to curriculums that focus on test outcomes rather than knowledge and skill.

All of the people mentioned in this video that were successful had something else in common apart from the fact that they didn't complete higher education. They pursued their dreams despite their formal education, not because of it, and they all pursued their own education.

Jobs, Wozniak and Gates taught themselves everything about computers. They didn't wait around for anyone to plan out their education.

Beckham trained in football since he could walk.

Richard Branson didn't wait around for a degree, he started selling mail order records from his garage and started learning the business by doing rather than reading.

I could go on.

One thing I find very common with graduates is that when I ask them what projects they've worked on during their education; what projects they started themselves; what they've created and put out there out of their own passion for their industry... 95% have nothing.

I would hire someone who has done their own thing and does not have a degree rather than someone who has 5 masters to their name and has done diddly squat outside of the requirements of their education.

Tommy Shaw is looking more like Richard Branson every day!

Well met! I love religious intolerants!>> ^alien_concept:
Zach is my own personal Jesus, so I do need to point out that you have committed an act of blasphemy and I will be watching you very closely from now on.

>> ^messenger:

IMO not funny, and in my estimation, unoriginal, poorly acted, poorly executed.
I generally downvote for the same reasons as most (something doesn't deserve to be on the Sift), but also when there's a Top 15 sift that I think is particularly undeserving of that position.>> ^alien_concept:
>> ^messenger:
If ant's not downvoting, then I will.

Any particular reason, or?



Zach is my own personal Jesus, so I do need to point out that you have committed an act of blasphemy and I will be watching you very closely from now on.

IMO not funny, and in my estimation, unoriginal, poorly acted, poorly executed.

I generally downvote for the same reasons as most (something doesn't deserve to be on the Sift), but also when there's a Top 15 sift that I think is particularly undeserving of that position.>> ^alien_concept:

>> ^messenger:
If ant's not downvoting, then I will.

Any particular reason, or?

>> ^messenger:

If ant's not downvoting, then I will.


Any particular reason, or?

>> ^alien_concept:

>> ^EvilDeathBee:
Will there be more or was this just a quickie?

There is a whole Between Two Ferns segment before Comedy Central's Comedy Awards on Sunday! This is another teaser http://videosift.com/video/Between-Two-Ferns-With-Richard-Branson


Oh I see. Well any more Between Two Ferns gets my attention

>> ^EvilDeathBee:

Will there be more or was this just a quickie?


There is a whole Between Two Ferns segment before Comedy Central's Comedy Awards on Sunday! This is another teaser http://videosift.com/video/Between-Two-Ferns-With-Richard-Branson

http://blogs.canada.com/2012/03/06/richard-branson-on-c10-drug-laws-its-just-not-the-answer/

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>> ^ant:

Does it fly faster than Concords?


Unfortunately we haven't come up with a way for grapes to fly yet. (How about it science?)



It does not however fly faster than a Concorde.

>> ^westy:

This is all good and fun , but really should we not be pioneering technology that caters to the pore and the majority of humans on the planet rather than a technology that will only cater to the super wealthy at first and then maybe the very upper middle western class in 30 years ?
As far as i understand the altitude for this craft would be to low and short lived for scientific use maybe some of the research from this will go into national space programs.
stuff like this is far better than war and entertainment is defiantly an important thing i still feel this for such a small section of privileged society that its just an insult to the majorty of people on earth.


No no no no no no no NO NO NO NO god no.

Firstly, who are you to decide what people spend their money on? Richard branson's company can do whatever the hell richard branson chooses because he made the successful company. Why the hell don't you spend all your time and money and effort on solving world hunger problems, if you're so keen to point out where others can increase their charity.

There's money in this for branson, that's why virgin is doing it. If there's one thing that will give a gigantic boot to the progression and interest in space travel, space flight, space technology, it's commercial companies finding a way to make money out of it.

If i told you to live and work inside your house all day every day, you'd get bored and want to escape the house and see the town. If i told you to live and work in your town all the time, you'd want to see the country. If i told you to stay in your country, you'd want to see the world. Why are people so content to sit on this rock indefinitely? If not space, what else? Do we just stay here like a fenced animal, our eyes blinkered, focused so hard on chasing bits of paper with "£20" or "$20" on them?

There are enough people in this world such that we can do more than JUST solve world hunger. We didn't drag people away from charity events to work on space flight.

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