Scholastic achievement - or not
Chris Anderson, editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine, and author of The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More, was born in England in 1961, and “went to high school in the suburbs of Washington, D.C., where he was, in his own words, ‘a complete f**k-up’ who graduated late due to missing credits.
“He proceeded to flunk out of the University of Maryland—’with a 0.0 G.P.A.’ - before eventually getting a degree from George Washington University and doing graduate work in physics at Berkeley and research at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.”
From Reason post “Welcome to Niche Nation” by Nick Gillespie
> Related page: nurturing talent
> Related articles:
Getting out of school alive - by Douglas Eby
Are You a Scanner? - by Barbara Sher
> related list: Noted High School and Elementary School Dropouts
> related book: Genius Denied : How to Stop Wasting Our Brightest Young Minds
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