Collage in general has never been about education. Collage is about getting a stamp on your head saying that you have been to collage. Meaning that you spend years learning a bunch of stuff and you didn't do stop shit to kicked out.
I guess for engineering where there is significant equipment necessary this doesn't hold.
But the majority of collage is pointless, all the knowledge you need is available outside of collage but then nobody can verify that you actually learned it.
This book is pretty hard hitting but it provides a lot of solid analysis about what the problem is:
The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
Engineering, Science, Medicine, Dentistry, Law, Education, Architecture - those are just a few things that are extremely impractical or even impossible to learn on your own.
Let me know how your surgery with your self-taught surgical teams works out for you and how your subsequent lawsuit with your self-taught lawyer goes.
I guess for engineering where there is significant equipment necessary this doesn't hold.
But the majority of collage is pointless, all the knowledge you need is available outside of collage but then nobody can verify that you actually learned it.
This book is pretty hard hitting but it provides a lot of solid analysis about what the problem is:
The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money