1.   My father blew his top when I told him I was quitting medical school.

2.   Because their mothers tend to be unskilled workers at the margins of poverty, their children are more likely to quit school to work.

3.   Because welfare is there, they quit school, refuse to form stable families and pump out kids who go wild in our streets when their hormones kick in.

4.   A few years after he quit school to write programs for the first personal computers, Gates struck it rich.

5.   After he sold his first screenplay as a sophomore at New York University, he quit school and moved to Hollywood.

6.   After three months, he quit school, packed his bag and hitchhiked home.

7.   After one ill-fated semester at Bethune-Cookman, a frustrated Blackmon quit school and held down jobs as a grave digger and used-car salesman.

8.   After Peter Hedges realized he was never going to be a very good actor, he quit drama school and became a writer.

9.   After Swoopes became pregnant, Jackson quit school at Texas Tech and stayed home.

10.   But generations of men and women still lined up to serve the mill, many of them quitting school to take their places beside its machines.