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🗓️ 15 April 2016
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Derek Magill discontinued his studies at the University of Michigan -- where he was a member of Young Americans for Liberty, by the way -- in order to go into business for himself and to do work he found rewarding. We discuss the ins and outs of all this in today's episode.
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0:56.9 | college? Can I just be an entrepreneur and not go to college? Is that plausible or not? And, you know, |
1:04.4 | as I'm probably going to bring up with our guest today, I'm not of the opinion that we should |
1:09.9 | take a dogmatic anti-college position. I see that |
1:13.5 | on part of a lot of libertarians. I don't think that's necessary. And I do think there are certainly |
1:18.1 | some fields where it makes sense to go to college if you can afford to do it. But there are a lot of |
1:23.0 | fields where it doesn't, or these are areas of study that you can study on your own you can |
1:28.5 | learn something marketable in college and then if you want to learn liberal arts or whatever |
1:32.8 | you have the rest of your life it's not like all your learning has to occur during a structured |
1:38.0 | four-year period off on some college campus you should be a lifelong learner anyway so we're |
1:44.0 | to talk about |
1:44.5 | that today with Derek McGill, who initially went to the University of Michigan and wound up |
1:50.9 | leaving and starting his own marketing company instead. While he was at the University of Michigan, |
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