“Ninety percent of CEOs currently heading the top five hundred American companies did not receive undergraduate degrees from Ivy League colleges. In fact, more received their undergraduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin than from Harvard (the most heavily represented Ivy school, with nine CEOs).”
– Rework by Jason Fried
The Lew Rockwell Show has recently featured a talk called “Making a Difference in the World” by Gary North. It’s given to students and contains some helpful advise for anyone who is planning for the future of their vocation.
Psychologically, Pragmatism lobotomized the country’s intellectuals: John Dewey’s theory of “Progressive” education (which has dominated the schools for close to half a century), established a method of crippling a child’s conceptual faculty and replacing cognition with “social adjustment”. It was and is a systematic attempt to manufacture tribal mentalities.
(Philosophy: Who Needs It, Ayn Rand, Signet, 1994, p43)