Hrm. I really really don't understand all this advice to go to school. Just in general, but for entrepreneurs, especially. It's all roses and candy corn, 'me

Hrm. I really really don't understand all this advice to go to school. Just in general, but for entrepreneurs, especially. It's all roses and candy corn, 'meet smart people' (okay, assuming you got into a top 10% school), 'start projects not businesses' (okay if you have a scholarship or family-backing), 'show that you can finish something.' What about the fact that it is 4 years of your life? What about the fact that you are going to come out of it with a degree, the main thing you're aiming for, that is nearly worthless if you are an entrepreneur? What about the fact that you are likely going to come out of it with 60k+ in debt? This doesn't even consider the opportunity cost. That is four years you could spend traveling the world (meeting smart people), building companies not projects (and finishing them), potentially having some savings rather than a house-worth of debt. Not to mention the swagger that comes with pwning the world in your own way. You want to be a teacher? Yeah, go to college, you gotta. Doctor, lawyer, same thing. But you want to make a million bucks before you're thirty shipping products? Four years of dicking off between the work you have to do for classes, 75% of which bore you is just a stretch to me as a good idea. If you want to be top in your field while pushing the cutting edge of what's possible and what's not, go on and get your PHD and paid-access to brilliant professors, then yeah, go to school. But you are like .01% then.. not the typical 'go to school or don't' thing. The question being answered in this article is "are there benefits to going to school?" And obviously, there are. But the real question should be, "for an entrepeneur, is it better to spend 4 years struggling and working and building a business, learning as you go, or spend 4 years going to college and paying 60k for the privilege?" When you frame the question that way, I think it's quite obvious that the vast majority of the time, going to school is a negative equity move.