Take someone like
Dimitri Gaskin. He will probably get hired from google or any tech startup when he leaves high school even without a degree in software engeeniering or good high school marks.
Why? Because he programs a lot. If you program a lot and maybe contribute too open source program to get a portfolio it's possible to get IT jobs.
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Bill gates may have not gone UNI, but he is am adamont pusher of further education, google it if you dont beleive me.
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Bill Gates thinks that general educations isn't as good as it should be and therefore pushes programs to improve education
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Your opening statement kinda makes me think you do have something against education.
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You assume that what happens in school has something to do with education.
Jonathan Drori makes the case that when students leave school they often have a poorer understanding of how gravity and magnetism work as they did as 7 year olds before they got *physics* schooling.
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What if you had to go and discover the knowledge yourself?
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Actually it's pretty easy to find most of the knowledge on the internet or in a libary. Even buying textbooks is a lot cheaper.
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Do you really beleive that a law graduate from Harvard who passed with flying colours will not show more competence than someone who barely scrapped in with a degree from Aruba?
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Don't confuse correlation with causation.
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Take Steve Pavlina. The way he writes, one can tell he is an educated thinker. He thinks very systematically and logically.
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I don't think that Steve's education came primarily from his professors at university but from a lot of self development.
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Why do Japanese cars have such a good reputation? Uniformity of quality standards. 99% of the time, they are known for quality? The source? Education.
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I think that the difference between Japanese and US cars doesn't lie in education or you would have to conclude that MIT and harvard are crappy at schooling (with in itself doesn't help your argument about going to university) but lies in a lot of cultural paradigms.
Detroit runs on Pay for Performance with produces short term thinking when Toyota runs on continous improvement.