gatekeeping

Honestly you can't even buy an education outside of some technical fields needed in the economy. The only way to really become educated is to be a life long enjoyer of knowledge across many domains. There is almost no educated people left anymore since all of that has gone to the way side to make room for authoritarianism and orwellianism. Economics is a great example. Go to the most prestigious schools in the U.S and you will not learn even the most basic principles and facts of economics. Law is the same. You will not learn law as it actually is, but this totalitarian mindrot version of law.

Private lessons don't make you smarter. They just make you more well equipped with.

I am a lifetime student. I am not smarter. I am not a smarty pant

Because capitalism

Cause people will pay it

because rich people dont want competition, so some fields are gatekept. like professorships, medical doctors, research scientists, probably admins that arnt acquired through nepotism. if have been a job forum alot of positions are taken by nepotism in general. research heavily gatekpt, by placing a arbitrary amount x years of experience in job listings even at the entry level. Also the top prestigious schools often breed elitist ass students too, they think they are entitled to certain jobs, or if they become professor, they think the way its taught should be higher than it would for that college.

some people are saying degrees are useless, they are if you are getting one without doing research on it before applying, thats on you. trades is not as easy to get in as you think, even if doesnt require it.

It doesn't cost money to get smarter.

It costs money to get a piece of paper from old, decrepit, incompetent assholes who once got pieces of paper from older, decrepiter, incompetenter assholes.

Take it from a man who dropped out of three colleges after a collective ten semesters: A college degree in most majors is a certificate of bullshit satthroughedness, not a mark of intelligence. Take it from a man who made a 97% on the FAA's Fundamentals of Instruction test and whose flight students have NEVER ONCE failed a test he's endorsed them for: Most of the college professors I've met couldn't teach a cat to meow. A rare few of them could teach a fish to bark. And "tenure" is the stupidest fucking thing I've ever heard of outside of the Republican National Convention.

In the words of Samuel Clemens, "I never let my schooling interfere with my education."

Go to the library and read. Read books, read scientific journals, don't read white papers, they're journalism-shaped marketing. And above all: Try shit.

For centuries it was called "gatekeeping." Education is the means of mobility. The elites want that limited.

To keep the poor undereducated and easier to control. The ones allowed through have to pay the entry fee.