My exact sentiment after my 1st semester of college 45+ years ago.
Me: "Why do I need to learn this shit, I'll never use it" Dad: "To prove you can learn."
Its so you can get a piece of paper that claims you have a minimum level of competency and enough ambition to stick to the program long enough to get the degree. If you need to "prove if you can learn" with college then you probably have bigger problems.
I am in a field that is very technical. I also self educate and took some classes to get a degree that I didn't need because I already knew enough to teach the classes (and later actually did teach for a while). Most of school was just one big waste of time.
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