Everyone knows the value of a good education. It open the doors to endless oportunities
and helps you build wealth and navigate a successful life style. People who have a college education earns
exponentially more over high school or college dropouts. Unless, of course, you are a Bill Gates
or Steve Jobs college dropouts, both multibillionaires in the computer and software industry, and the reason
you are reading this article today.

This is just to say, that a good education is not necessarily an expensive one. Bill Gates, a Harvard
drop out, and Steve Jobs, a Reed College drop out, both had solid foundations of what is needed
to become successful entreprenuers. Dedication, perserverance, good concepts of needed and viable products, a love and passion for what they were doing. These traits are universal for inventors. They are are the same driving forces that lead Geroge Washington Carver to his numerous inventions.

Both Bill and Steve, had the tenacity to believe in their products and work endless hours in their garage learning and developing their innovative skills. But, most important they both had the ability to read, write and decipher intricate details to meet the market trends of creating products for an information age. An education provided them with the ability to create unparallel opportunities in product designs and developments.

Bill Gates, the son of a prominent lawyer, probably had it much easier than Steve Jobs. At Least Bill, now
holding over 6000 patents, probably didn’t have to worry about the expense of a lawyer in his
earlier days. Steve, on the other hand, came from an average adopted family and dropped out of
of Reed College because he felt that the heavy expense it imposed on his adopted family was too great. In Steve’s 2005 commencement speech at Stanford University, he tell of how he would enjoy walking
seven miles each Sunday to a Christian Center to enjoy one meal a week.He loved those days.

When Steve dropped out of Reed College, he continued his education and learning process by taking calligraphy classes he loved which he later incorporated the style into his first Apple Computer. If you watch his You-Tube presentation when he first unveiled the Macintosh computer whose application was so simple you would laugh now
However, the proud look on Steve”s face is indellible.

Today, and billions of dollars later, when you see the numerous sophisticated Apple computers
softwares, ipods, itunes, and many others, you are compelled to posed Oprah’s compeling question”What Is This Here To Teach Me.” Today, for all you who are deliberating over starting or continuing your educational process. Take a lesson from sucessful people

You dont have to aspire to make billions or even millions, however, to become successful, in any field, learn from successful people. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs teaches us that knowledge, learning and education is cumulative.

Each time you acquire a learning skill, complete a task, or design a product successfully, it builds a long term foundation for building wealth. Any learning process makes learning another skill, completing another task or or designing another product, much, much easier.  

The importance of education in designing products for the American public in nowhere more apparent that in the life Steve Jobs and Bill Gates.  

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