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Dropping out Of High School can be OK
Posted by: Nikhil Jaikumar ( The People's Collective Council, Massachusetts, USA ) on January 11, 1999 at 01:00:20:
In Reply to: Dropping out Of High School posted by Courtney on January 08, 1999 at 11:16:11:
No email address given so I'll post here instead...Michael Faraday discovered many scientific principles of immense importance, especially that changing magnetic fields produce an electric current (which, as the fpoundaation for electric generators, is the foundation of all modern technology). He also invenetd the idea of electric fields, and has two scinetific units and two "Laws" named after him.
Ho Chi Minh of course liberated Vietnam.
Joe Slovo, a Lithuanian Jewish immigrant to South Africa, became the leader of the communist party and the foremost white anti-apartheid activist. :later Minister of Housing, also a clsoe friend of Mandela.
Grace Metalious wrote Peyton Place, an important work in popular American literature and one that exposed the hypocrisy and dark underside of '40s society.
All did not finish high school. And look where they ended up.
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