The problem isn't what you learn, it's whether you can show the piece of paper proving you learned it. I learned most of my undergrad education on my own at ho

The problem isn't what you learn, it's whether you can show the piece of paper proving you learned it. I learned most of my undergrad education on my own at home from the books suggested. My education cost me time + the price of the books. However to get the exams, grades and piece of paper in the end, it costs a lot of money. If we could decouple certification/exams from private institutions, autodidactic people could get their Bachelor's degree almost for free. For Master and PhD degrees I guess the point is more to do research.