As a person who almost didn't attend a school and dropped out from university, I can confidently say that many (if not most) schools and universities across the

As a person who almost didn't attend a school and dropped out from university, I can confidently say that many (if not most) schools and universities across the globe are completely useless. You may think I'm kidding or exaggerating. But seriously, what exactly they are "teaching"? For most part, I've seen school/university teachers who never care to explain core ideas, instead their so called "teaching" is mostly about mindless memorization. Since I was a kid, I always frustrated how stupid my teachers were. I ended up studying practically everything on my own (except reading/writing/elementary math which my grandpa taught me). I learned myself how to write programs when I was 10/11 years old. My parents were not programmers, so I had no help. I lived in Uzbekistan, Russia, Sweden, the Netherlands. I'm working as a software engineer since 2009 (I started my career working at internet-club in 2002/2003). I can confidently tell that most of "experts" (in whatever field) who have so called "higher education" diploma don't understand a damn thing. Cost of education = cost of books, nothing more! If you have luxury to have internet access (no sarcasm, I didn't had internet access till 2002/2003), then add cost of your personal computing device (again no sarcasm, I had only 8-bit ZX Spectrum till 2000!) and internet access subscription. Peter Thiel has a similar view on "higher education" system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvBlOFU3ry8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvBlOFU3ry8