Elon Musk: College is USELESS but High School isn't 

Education is necessary , college degree is not....

Elon: don’t to to college Also Elon: requires bachelor’s degree for jobs at his companies

It’s good to take a break to explore yourself, to know your strengths and working on it,

For every Steve Jobs there’s 20,000 dropouts folding clothes in a mall, or pouring coffee.

High school felt useless to me. College was incredible and I learned so much and studied what I wanted to study. But yea, it really isn’t necessary today.

Just a reminder that Elon has 2 bachelor's degrees.

We are uniquely made. Each person has some value. Education should help a person to find a career track.

Dude you are rocking 😁👏👍💯%.

Can I get a job at Tesla without a college degree

Not everyone is a bill Gates, Steve Jobs, etc so they have to stand out.

Depending on the field no you don’t need a degree, however you may need to be certified, Doctors, lawyers or a specific profession you definitely need maybe a few degrees and certified for good reason. Some companies will hire based on experience/talent, other jobs hire based on a degree and/or experience. You don’t need a degree to be an inventor or creat tech, or make apps to get the job, but you are competing against other techies that have a design degree and can make apps too

They act like everyone can just make a multimillion dollar company

Most important stuff for education is actually life, character, basic math, business studies, beginner science, and the language of the country ur living in/going to.

He seems so kind and humble when he talks.

Learning college level math in high school teaches you how to think. Reading philosophy and discussions too. All the memorization stuff read that at home mostly. Class for Q+A or videos and subjects like genetics that can be like math They should absolutely have a finance/business primer. Also NUTRITION / metabolism

Self study can take you a long way. However, naming rare talented outliers isn't a good baseline for college dropouts.

but then you’re up against people who do have college degrees and more often than not, an employer will choose them. lots of careers require degrees, where you’ll just be straight turned down without one. the very few cases like steve jobs or whoever he said, who don’t have a degree are just a very lucky few who made it big without one. be responsible. btw that’s not to say that if you don’t want to go to university or college it’s irresponsible. if you have a career path and it doesn’t require a degree then good for you! but there’s really no one way for everyone.

Says the guy who went to Queen's and then transferred to Pen Warton school of business.

I am 5 th time fail in neet but I am going to start my own startup

The exception is a career that requires a collage degree. One of my favorite Nursing Instructors stated, she learned more from LPNs then her RNs, after Graduating & her starting her job!

i don’t know why but his voice is so calming

His father's emerald mine:

School is good but college is not necessary for everyone that what i believe.

The problem is, unless you are an entrepreneur type, most jobs today will ask for at least Bachelor for entry level positions. It's more like an entry ticket at this point, sadly

I’ll quit college when I’m handed $300 billion for talking

High school is useless too. That's 4 years of saving money down the toilet.

High school today doesn’t teach you anything useful in class most of your learning comes from outside experiences and mistakes you make while going

Truth!

Steve jobs and bill gates and Musk also went to top unis so…

Only in some special circumstances...!!! When there is an exceptional ability and talent...!!! THANK YOU...!!!

It depends on what u want to be in life because no one wants some kid who dropped out of college doing surgery on them

This is why I am never going back to this hell hole of a place.

The exception doesn't cancel the rule... The rule is : education is the key to everything we enjoy in our daily life.

Ingenuity and creativity😮

Oh so that's why he's removing the graduated employees😂😂

Educated people - education doesn't matter Rich people - money doesn't matter

Most college degree graduated from college , living paycheck to paycheck. Wisdom, common sense ( that seems to be long gone nowadays ) , knowledge, social networking and financial managements are the most important thing then the title itself.

Education is very important. Never let someone tell you otherwise.

Education isn't just about getting a job. It's about learning to critically think, process information, making decisions

Wise words

Hear me out if u r not going to college u need to be present at a better place its most important thing....❤

They always mention the OUTLIERS. RESULTS NOT TYPICAL!!!!!

The lesson from here is not that you don't need education. Its your attitude towards hardwork. College can provide you the bare minimum skills and knowledge you require for some jobs. But! Remember that the knowledge in the library is free! It can also provide you the bare minimum. The rest is experience whether its from working at a company or freelance.

You either have it or you don’t …. 😎 it pretty much sums up everything,with all the incompetence that I’ve had dealt with since my break from my job,it’s been insurmountable the sheer magnitude on every level of administration is quite astonishing & deplorable. 📚🎓✏️ 🧠

He says that, but his companies hire engineers with degrees. Actions speak louder than words.

Learning is about experiences and reading the world

You don't need a college all you need is exceptional skills, it can be attained at it's fullest though self education.

Even High School in many areas is useless today.

I have 3 STEM Degrees and underemployed. The biggest regret was taking student loans. The knowledge I gained was one of the greatest achievement I have done. My engineering studies proves the most valuable and I apply some of those concepts to my everyday life. For example, I never have to take my car in for any repairs. My medical degree proved to be the most useless. I mean it still helps me to diagnose myself but I can't prescribe meds for myself so I need to see someone that could, so I still have to pay out of pocket expenses.

Elon misspoke. He said “there’s no reason that you need to get a college degree.” What he should have said is “there should be no reason that a college degree is a requirement.” Try practicing law or medicine without a degree and see what happens. People with proven knowledge, experience and ethics should be able to apply for a law or medical license, but they are not allowed to do so in most places. A few states in the United States, allow for an apprenticeship in law, and allow those apprentices to take the bar exam, and become attorneys without having a degree. Every state should be like that. In fact, every state should require an apprenticeship in law and other fields. At least, the medical profession requires an “apprenticeship” before allowing doctors to see patients on their own.

You can succeed without it, but it gives you an advantage. The majority of the top 1% have a college education.

Friendly reminder that most of us have an average IQ, dropping out of college to start a billions of dollars worth business really is not going happen

SCHOOL NARROWS YOUR MIND, YOU HAVE TO FOLLOW YOUR CURIOSITY

I actually agree. But I’ll pay attention in high school🙌

That true highschool starts everything

collage isnt a tool to make you smarter, its a tool to measure ones intelligence and potential in life. -Sun Tzu (Probably)

Tbh, I feel like college is a waste of time IF u are planning on making smth out of your own ideas such as being a musician, actor, entrepreneur, etc. because once ur out of college, most people just end up working for other people instead of creating their own life

School not only teaches learning materials, but also helps students to get along socially; and so teaches sociology through real life experience. ( very hopefully, without bullying) I think as kids and teenagers and students come in contact with others, they get to learn more about life, how others think, and so are able to think more deeply. I think that would help in applying what they have learned in school, later on in their career.

Make college unecessary..some of these degrees should just be certifications...

I dream of being a college graduate but fear to embrace the honor of becoming one. This is why I suddenly stopped trying my best.

“If you wanna get laid go to college,if you want an education go to the library” (Frank Zappa)

When people say college degrees are useless I honestly believe they are repeating what others say

I'm a high school graduate and currently working with college graduates colleagues. I mean It's a college degree job and still manage to get hired. Though I always felt the lack of confidence whenever I see my blank educational background on my profile

Fuck high school

Yeah Sir very specific

elon, not everyone's daddy is loaded.

College should be one option out of many for helping people select a career path for themselves. There needs to be other options especially work-study options for young people. I was out of college ten years before I was able to decide what I actually *want* to do as a career. And I only figured it out through a lot of travel, and trial and error. Unless you are on a college track, there is no one out here to guide you, other than psychologists and career counselors, (but they really can’t help you if you don’t know what your goals are).

Why are comments so toxic in here?

College is good for teaching people to work together as a team.

Those people were lucky

Doctors: Surgeons: Nurses: Pharmacists: Dentists: Therapists: Lawyers: Scientists: Engineers: Teachers: Historians: .....

Have to agree. I’m only going to college for a masters because the associate degree is dirt cheap at public colleges and I’ll get a free bachelor and masters because of my GI bill. I’m studying aquatic and marine biology and find the college courses more and more useless and I’m learning less and less useful things as I’ve started a business breeding / selling fish, and studying life cycles of fish and other aquatic life / diseases and treatments for said diseases with base chemical and organic compounds. When I get done with school yes other employers might initially look at my resume because I have the degree but they will higher me because of already having 4 to 5 years of actual work experience. College degrees are useless vs actual intelligence and talent.

The idea of a college degree has been crumbling for a while now.

Not the egotistical oligarch telling us that college is useless.

We are so uneducated we can’t even agree on what “education” means.

Space x still requires a college degree tho 🤔

It really is up to what people are looking for. People need to start thinking about what goals/careers they want to get into and think about how to get there. Don't just go to school for vague goals like get a degree and get whatever job because you'll just be lacking passion and motivation that is needed to succeed. Like if you want a career in cooking, go train under a chef or cooking school, if you want to be a researcher, get into academia that offers a great program, if you want to be good at business, hone in all of your math, logic, and negotiation skills by whatever means that work best for you (online school/college/workshops). This idea that everyone should go to college or fail in life is a detrimental mindset because it's not about having a degree, it's about knowing your strengths and how you're going to put them to work, both in a job and in life. Some people know right away what they want to do so they don't feel the need to go through high school/college, unfortunately, many employers have high requirements in place and this is what restrict people's options. Meanwhile others go through high school and college to explore and pass time before even figuring out what they want to do. But anyway, best of luck to everyone chasing their dream career.

Say that to all the engineers working in Tesla.

bro completely took the clip out of context

This statement by Elon Musk is only applicable to those who have failed to get degree and now they are sad, this statement are to motivate so as to reduce the suicide rate. But if we have a chance to get a degree then we should definitely get a degree. Reality is that you need degree to get job. While one can become billionaire without degree cause thats an exception case with exception qualities. So don't ever think about it that degree doesn't matter. It's matter alot

I get what Elon is saying about college. It is to round off the corners people have to make the people fit into certain companies from the old days. Now technology, and ideas change so quickly that schools cannot keep up. The schools can be teaching 10-20 year old ideas.

Yes high was good. A bit interesting

It means all the students studying hard for jee exam in India to get into a good college are just foolish!! What are you saying man? Will you hire someone without any specialization in you company?? If this is the case, then why does Tesla come to hire in iit Delhi, iit Bombay ??

Cope for the people without a degree.

Imacu par pitanja .... mozete lagano pripremat odgovore imate vremena. Nikada nesmwte zaboravit jednu stvar onaj koje dao ima podpuno pravo i da oduzme. Tako pise u Biblij!

bill gates went to Harvard, wtf he talking about

This is the same guy that renamed Twitter to X

He didn’t say high school was useful

It's even better not to have for your spiritual development

But he still hire graduates with educational background for doing professional job in their company🤣 Such as Engineering, Finance, Research and Etc

Keep hiring brilliant minds

Unless you want to a doctor or lawyer, a real engineer doesn’t need any degrees. Some engineers in my field has 10 years of experience with no degree and they have the same title as me who only got a couple years of experience and a college degree. Degrees are useful for moving up. But that’s the boring management job anyway. The higher up you go, the less technical work you will get

“I didn’t go to Harvard but the people that work for me did.” - Elon Musk

Bruh what is this English

me: bachelors degree but jobless

Results not typical. Don’t follow Elon

I encouraged my daughter to attend Fort Hays to take a Vocational Class & she learned & became STNA. It was no problem, for her to get a job. 😊

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In the name of degree I'm just pouring money in my university account , and their education is valueless , as a lower middle class I feel so wrong , and thinking of dropping out and self studying to develope my skills

Don't listen to this man. He calls money success, and it isn't. Follow your heart and dreams and study whatever you want and desire. Art, Music, Science, do require teachers and students, labs, schools, universities, practice and dedication. Stop worshiping money.