I think a lot of people cling to formal education because it is more comfortable than independent learning and entrepreneurship. :bigear:
Education is great if you want a job. If you want to make a lot of money, then you gotta go self employed
How many people could teach themselves, say, calculus, differential equations, linear algebra, or symbolic logic and set theory?
A formal education, depending on what you might study, is probably of marginal value in this career field.
In defense of a formal education, I would never have read Chaucer, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, and many other on my own, but I glad that I have.
Might have read Dostoevsky and Faulkner though.. mad motherfuckers..