I agree with this from a CS perspective but I don't think the argument extends to other fields necessarily. Part of what college gets you and a la cart self-le

I agree with this from a CS perspective but I don't think the argument extends to other fields necessarily. Part of what college gets you and a la cart self-learning doesn't as easily is the confidence that you know what you don't know. That is also why employers prefer a degree. It tells them you have a complete base of knowledge that was well thought out. The reason this doesn't work in CS is because practice is so far ahead of the academy in most areas. In other fields, such as physics and history this is not the case.