My great grandfather had his first daughter at 38, my grandmother. My kids wont go to college. It will be online, and incorporated with their other studies. Maybe a degree isn’t necessary, but they will be doing college classes like I did. If you think experience replaces training, you are in for a rude awakening. I’ve seen it across domains (especially MMA), self taught people always fall short of trained people. You will learn that people who are intelligent enough to invest in their own skills are better at solving problems, they perform better in all arenas. And with that ongoing reform, it’s foolish to write academia off. If one can get a “4 year degree” in a year for $15,000, why would you write that off? The self taught bullshit is why our systems are collapsing. Go teach yourself how a program written 50 years ago in cobol or Fortran works — and good fucking luck 😭

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I did not say self taught is better than training. Universities offer little in the way of training. Many are teaching skills or methods obsolete in the field and employers have to supplement knowledge. I intend my kids to test out of high school around 16, and begin local community college courses while working/interning. Many paths open up from there that can bypass further wasted time on academia. Some fields REQUIRE 8 years of academic education but most do not. I'm just saying a wall of college degrees is more often than not only a status symbol of hundreds of thousands of dollars spent with nowhere near that value of knowledge in return.