23 School Dropouts Who Went On To Kill It

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Now, we aren't saying that education isn't important ... but these people did do a bunch of cool shit without all that institutionalized B.S.

Our readers brought us the best of the best, whose said best was the result of a lack of some sort of education. The winner is below, but first the runners-up ...

Entry by yulka1

Bobby Fischer dropped out of high school when he was fifteen, after having very poor grades. At age fourteen, he held a record for youngest grandmaste

Entry by CZM

When Charles Dickens was 12, his.father imprisoned for debt. Charles had was to drop out of e) school to support his family, which is how he ended up

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