Depends on your goals. As an autodidact myself who has spent 8/9 years as a software developer and now a couple years as a data analyst/scientist with but a hig

Depends on your goals. As an autodidact myself who has spent 8/9 years as a software developer and now a couple years as a data analyst/scientist with but a high school education I can tell you either way can lead you to great things. It should be noted that I'm now enrolled in school however and pursuing my bachelors with an eventual goal of getting my master's degree. Why? Three things: One is credibility. I notice myself referencing that different people have their masters in a topic and it means something to me. Two is that college has forced me to learn things I don't care about. Three is that building a curriculum around topics I don't know is extremely hard as is spending a budgeted amount of time on it and objectively measuring whether or not I learned anything. The quote you posted is nonsense. The only thing that interferes with your learning is your pride.