“It isn’t that you don’t learn good things in college—you do—it is just that it isn’t what will make you successful in life. Here is what Mr. Davis says: ‘Formal education will make you a living. Self-education will make you a fortune.’ You can graduate from your formal education—and the masses do—but the great writer Thoreau said that the masses ‘lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.’ And that, it seems, is exactly where you are right now.”
