According to The Telegraph, Wikileaks recently released some information that has Richard Branson criticizing the British education system.
The entrepreneur made the comments at a business lunch in Beijing, according to a confidential US diplomat’s report.
Chinese businessmen at the event titled What Makes a Good Entrepreneur, held in January 2008, complained that their British counterparts were “overeducated, too conservative, lacking passion for entrepreneurship and too afraid of failure”.
The US ambassador Clark Randt reported in a cable published on the WikiLeaks website that: “British billionaire Richard Branson agreed that British entrepreneurs are overeducated and that schooling does not prepare one for entering the business world.”
The Chinese reportedly agreed that their own school system had the same problem.
The Virgin tycoon, who is dyslexic and left school at the age of 15, has previously said that he gained valuable business experience while his peers were at university.
He told a student website: “Obtaining a diploma is only a first step, and in no way guarantees success.”
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