If for purely pragmatic reasons: governments around the world will assess your accessibility to various things based on stuff like the papers an institution wil

If for purely pragmatic reasons: governments around the world will assess your accessibility to various things based on stuff like the papers an institution will give you. If you think formal education is useless; that's cool but the world is still going to use these dumb papers. So if you're any smart, suck it up and play the game. In any case, I don't think formal education is useless, I'm just making the argument in extremis.