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It’s no wonder that many of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs and innovators either left school early (like Thomas Edison), or said they hated school and learned despite it, not because of it (like Albert Einstein)

Hrm, I am using the critical thinking skills that I developed in late high school and university, in a teach-and-test environment, to determine that this is both using weasel words ('many') and is an 'appeal to authority' fallacy.

This is an argument where you very much need to present the numbers. Anything else is just an emotive ploy using cherry-picked data points.



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