Education is important. But sometimes, some people learn what they have to learn long before they are supposed to graduate. These people drop out and continue to learn in their own way. Some of them don’t even have formal education at all. For a gifted and dedicated personality, not even lack of education is an impediment.

David Bowie, the legendary musician

One of the most influential musicians to have ever lived, he never had an in-depth musical education. He only took beginner’s lessons in saxophone. That’s it.

Michael Faraday, one of the greatest scientists of all time

Faraday was born dirt poor and had no formal education at all. But when he started working for a bookbinder, he read up on a lot of science from the books he bound. He even offered to become an assistant to various scientists, but they all refused.

Then he took the matter into his own hands and discovered electromagnetism, invented the bunsen burner, discovered benzene, and made the first electric motor and generator, becoming one of the most important scientists of all time.