That’s great, & I’ve got 3 undergrads & a graduates degree myself, but honestly I feel like I’ve taught myself more since I’ve been out of college just from reading and watching videos on different subjects than I ever learned in college. I’m also aware that most people don’t seem to be quite as innately driven towards the acquisition of knowledge as I am & perhaps the structure of school is beneficial to them. I wanted to be a professor when I was in college & stay in academia, but I began to notice that universities seemed to be focusing more on politics and filling up with administrative bureaucracy instead of actually focusing on giving kids a real education. Universities hiring 5x the admin staff and less actual professors. I only cared about science and didn’t give a shit about all of the social justice warrior savior complex circle jerks going on within the staff. I was there between 2008-2015 when all of that stuff was just getting started and it really turned me off on academia. I look back at some of the people I used to be connected to through that time of my life and a lot of them are the most pompous, smug, holier-than-thou, hypocrites I’ve ever known. It seems to me that a lot of academia has become social clubs that you must abide by their strict rules and not step out of line or you will be destroyed. You can’t disagree, you cant challenge someone with a new theory that goes against what they’ve “spent their whole life trying to prove” when they have a higher standing than you, etc. A lot of it has become stagnant and dogmatic. People wonder where all the Einstein’s and Bohr’s of our generation are but the fact is, they’d probably just be discredited and run through the mud for questioning the current narrative. We are taught to fall in line and do what we’re told rather than to think freely and openly discuss our creative thoughts. I see evidence that a lot of the stagnation of mind is a direct result of universities. They create technicians, not inventors.