That’s how Steve Jobs described his decision to drop out of college, speaking in his now-famous 2005 commencement speech at Stanford University — and presumably striking terror into the hearts of parents who had always assumed their children’s successful futures would include a college degree. And who can blame them? After all, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics at that time was reporting that someone with a college degree could earn twice as much as someone with just a high school diploma, and that a high school graduate would be twice as likely to be unemployed as someone with a degree — figures that still hold true today.
