I entirely agree with you. Going to school is far from the only way to learn about a subject, especially if you're just doing it because you feel that it's what

I entirely agree with you. Going to school is far from the only way to learn about a subject, especially if you're just doing it because you feel that it's what you should be doing. If you're just putting in the hours because you think you need it to get a job, you're probably not going to get much benefit. Ideally this would result in you not getting the degree... but that's apparently an unpopular position. Ultimately it comes down to practice. A humanities degree at a decent-ish college should force you to get that practice at communicating in English in order to graduate. Conversely, a science degree should force you to learn a lot about how to communicate in the specialist terminology of your discipline. But going out and spending four years starting a business would probably be at least as good as both of these, if you're motivated.