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# On College Education
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/29382/
- Published: 2014-02-24T06:08:46.000Z
- Updated: 2014-02-24T06:08:46.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Miscellaneous, #wpChunk

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Max Beerbohm never completed his undergraduate studies. He dropped out of Oxford before his last year. Why? It was superfluous. At a very young age, he was already a rising man of letters. "He needed a degree," Joseph Epstein once noted, "about as much as the pope needs a bowling trophy." *Partial Payments*, p. 106.

Someone should put together a book of short biographies about successful people who never finished college. Just as reading the saints helps put a person into a holy frame of mind, reading about people who eschewed the hallowed degree would help put people in a sane frame of mind.