Stanford dropout Sam Altman says he envies college kids who quit school now

Sam Altman should know better than to make sweeping statements like this. Would you trust a college dropout to design the airplane you're flying on? Or the rocket taking you to a Moon colony? Would you go to a doctor or hire a lawyer who never finished college?

We need to stop glamorizing the dropout myth. Yes, some people go to college without a clear plan and end up with debt and underemployment - but that’s not a failure of education, it’s a failure of planning and guidance. The solution isn’t to abandon higher education; it’s to help people make better use of it. College is still the best path for training professionals in fields where rigor, ethics, and deep expertise matter. The fact that a few outliers succeed without it doesn’t make it a model to emulate.