There are plenty of people in the world who think that an expensive education, or even a basic education, is the key to success in most if not all areas of life. But just because someone hasn’t had the access to such an education, or never had the money to pay for it, doesn’t mean they don’t have the ability to do great things. There are people who have been making waves throughout the world who never had the educational opportunities that so many people take for granted. Here are just a few people who did amazing things without the benefit of a degree.
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Ed ‘Doc’ Ricketts
While his nickname may have been ‘Doc’, Ed Ricketts dropped out of college to pursue his love of marine ecology instead. Having surveyed most of the Western coast of North America and having written many seminal books, Ricketts pioneered terms like “ecosystem” and “habitat” and is still recognized as an ecological authority today.
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Orville and Wilbur Wright
You probably remember hearing about the Wright brothers when you were younger – they were the guys who built the first flyable airplane. What you probably didn’t know is that neither of the Wright men graduated high school.
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Steve Jobs
One of the most recognizable names of the 21st
century, you know Steve Jobs as the mastermind behind the mega-company Apple. He went to college for one semester, but he didn’t study what you might guess – he took classes in calligraphy, Shakespeare, and Modern Dance.
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Benjamin Franklin
One of the most recognizable founding fathers of the United States, Benjamin Franklin helped establish libraries and universities; helped make huge advances in science, especially in electricity; and assisted in drafting the Declaration of Independence. Not too shabby for a man who quit his schooling at the age of 10.

Jerrie Mock
While Amelia Earhart is the name that usually comes to mind when you think of history making aviatrixes, Jerrie Mock is the name that you should know when it comes to women that fly planes. A housewife and college- dropout with only 750 hours of flight practice, Mock did what Earhart was never able to accomplish – she was the first woman to make a solo plane flight around the globe.
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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek
Widely thought of as the Father of Microbiology, Antoni van Leeuwenhoek was a fabric merchant by trade. He taught himself to build his own microscope and grind his own lenses — this allowed him to discover the existence of bacteria, protozoa, animal sperm cells, and red blood cells, among others things.
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Frederick Douglass
Frederick Douglass was born as a slave and, before his freedom, taught himself and other slaves illegally to read and write. After he found his freedom he came a social reformer, orator, statesman, and a best-selling author.
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Henry Ford
A polestar of automotive history, the name Ford is still recognizable long after Henry Ford invented the assembly line and started making beloved and reliable motor vehicles. Although he was saddled with great fortune and responsibility, Ford never had a formal education – his father raised him to take over the family farm.

John D. Rockefeller
Because he was always so famous for being the world’s first billionaire, no one really stops to think about the like John D. Rockefeller had before he was for so much money. The son of con-artist, Rockefeller was born poor and only went to school up until the age of 16.
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Quentin Tarantino
Having two Oscars to his name, Quentin Tarantino is widely recognized as one of the most important filmmakers of the modern movie era. And yet, unlike a lot of writer/ directors out there, Tarantino never went to film school – he was a high-school dropout who learned his trade from watching as many movies as he could while working at a video rental store.
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Gregor Mendel
In the incredibly complex field of Genetics, people believe Gregor Mendel to be the father of this modern branch of science. Strangely enough, Mendel wasn’t a scientist at all – he was a monk who loved gardening and happened to notice how his sweet pea plants inherited traits from their parent plants.

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