College Dropout Bill Gates, Who Spends Millions on Harvard, Gets Honorary Doctorate
In 2007, Bill Gates spoke at Harvard University’s graduation.
Gates dropped out of Harvard to start Microsoft.
In 2007, Harvard awarded Gates an honorary doctorate.
Gates has never had to follow a predetermined program of study in order to earn a college degree via traditional coursework.
Moreover, since 1996, Gates has donated $262 million to Harvard in the form of 97 grants.
Talk about “paying” for a college degree.
Keep in mind that this is the same Bill Gates who is paying billions to impose the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) on American education, complete with curriculum, assessments, and data collection, to enable “powerful market forces” to drive American education– and not just k-12 education– education from preschool through college.
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In this six-minute clip of Gates’ speech at Harvard, he states, “Though I left early, I was transformed by my years at Harvard.”
So it is possible for a student to choose to drop out and still acknowledge that leaving without completing a degree had nothing to do with deficient teaching??
This idea really puts a kink in using student “outcome data” to “assess teacher effectiveness.”
Gates even jokes that it is good that he was not invited to speak at orientation, the implication being that he might have tried to talk other young Harvard students into dropping out.
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