To be in an environment with like-minded individuals so one can foster ambition, inspiration, and collaboration.
Your sentiment can be applied to any skillset. The same reason why a college degree is not needed for programmers.. One can learn concepts and languages from books outside of college. However the resources available in a community of like-minded individuals provides great benefit for the study of said topic.
>>To be in an environment with like-minded individuals so one can foster ambition, inspiration, and collaboration.
Colleges are not the only such environment. But it is the most expensive.
>>Your sentiment can be applied to any skillset.
Not really, no. Would you let a doctor without w college degree operate on you? Have your city's bridges and buildings designed and built by engineers and architects who learned their trades from books?
Your sentiment can be applied to any skillset. The same reason why a college degree is not needed for programmers.. One can learn concepts and languages from books outside of college. However the resources available in a community of like-minded individuals provides great benefit for the study of said topic.