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First, Elon Musk has an incredibly skewed version of the world. Second, for people without educated parents (which most people who go to college can't comprehend because most people going to college had parents who also went to college), I believe a STEM education has way more value and you do in fact learn valuable things in programming, electronics, biology, chemistry, etc. from experienced people very very rapidly. It's hard finding good intro books on your own, and even harder finding people with expertise who can answer questions (if you look at a circuit and wonder what one particular capacitor is doing, it can be a rabbit hole). Third, software, is (perhaps an unpopular opinion), not that hard to pick up. You can basically Google everything. Using Google you can even solve problems in languages you don't know. A ton of people do this. That's also part of why you see so many people programming who don't have a C.S. degree. I personally don't have a C.S. degree and feel like a lot of the projects I work on I would have been capable of learning back on middle school. You don't need years of scaffolding like you do in in physics, where each year they layer on more math and theory until they finally build up to the ability to grasp the concept you're interested in. I think if you want to be a chemical engineer and you don't go to college, you're going to have a bad time. Same for physics. Same for electrical engineering. For the humanities (and I'm lumping in software, because for Christ's sake, we even call them languages), I'm not really certain college provides much education. The real value is getting hired by a tech company that requires a degree (for the actual humanities... not even that I imagine). |
I am not sure about that; like you said, you can't google your way out of those problems when they arise.