<p>Steve Jobs attended Reed College for about a semester and dropped out. He never majored in anything. We know that he kept attending a few classes, like calligraphy, but that’s it.</p>
<p>How could he plan the design of such complex machines without the proper education? Did he just explain ideas to those who actually were educated in engineering (like Steve Wozniak)? I just want to understand how it came to happen. Thanks</p>
<p>Newsflash: people have invented and developed amazing things without a college degree in engineering. See: Tesla, Edison, virtually every inventor/engineer prior to 1930. </p>
<p>It doesn’t take a degree to do anything except get a job.</p>
<p>llama, I think you hit it. Jobs was (and is) the ideas visionary, Woz was the engineer who found a way to build the early machines.</p>
<p>College has become a tool of the elite to keep the masses occupied and “busy” instead of truly developing their skills and learning ways to make money and become powerful. An engineering degree isn’t needed to be an engineer. Hell, when you do co-op you do engineering work without the degree.</p>
<p>Intelligence and self-learning. Some people can learn one idea but understand the idea 10 times better.</p>
<p>that’s great. I have always wanted to be able to invent great things for the tech industry, but I was worried I would have to pursue an engineering degree to do that (which degree I did not really want to pursue). this clears a lot of things up and now I know more certainly that studying engineering is not for me</p>
<p>Perhaps you’re misunderstanding. An engineering degree isn’t necessary, but it’s very beneficial if you want to work in this industry. You would have to be extremely intelligent (and lucky) to do what Steve Jobs and Bill Gates did. What kind of “great things” do you hope to invent? If this is what interests you, why would you say you’re not interested in studying engineering?</p>
<p>No I understand just fine. I don’t plan on inventing anything; Steve Jobs and Bill Gates basically “won the lottery”. I just wanted to make sure that option was still open; that I would still have ways and means to develop something if an idea pops up.</p>
<p>Bottom line: I have no interest in working as an engineer, so I will not study engineering.</p>
<p>ahh, I understand your thinking now. That makes sense.</p>
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<p>a fairy tale the man tells the masses as he puts them 2 sleep . . .</p>
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<p>so why are you going to college?</p>
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<p>That’s just a myth created to calcify persistent social and economic differences.</p>
<p>Good grief…</p>
<p>This is a college discussion board. Take it someplace else.</p>