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RSS feeds  Students and Parents: Read This Book  Former
Secretary of Education Bill Bennett questions whether college is
�worth it.�  By George Leef   July 09, 2013  You’ve never heard
of Sarah Danaher or the company she founded, Ampersand
Photography. What makes Sarah’s story interesting is that she
could easily have gone to college after finishing high school,
but chose not to. She likes learning, but is passionate about
photography and didn’t want to spend years in college taking
courses she wasn’t especially interested in and piling up debts.
Now Sarah owns her own business and manages the considerable
array of work besides photography that it entails. There was a
lot to learn and she did it, all without any formal education
after high school. She is a CEO who never took a single business
course.  I know about Sarah because I read the new book by
William J. Bennett and David Wilezol Is College Worth It? The
authors (the former served as secr