How important is university and/or college?

[enchanted]

Thank you everyone for the great insights. I have some higher education but I've always been against school because I never wanted to conform and I also had depression issues. This is one reason Leo appeals so much because he's counter cultural and anti-academic.

But now I'm wondering if I'm missing out and/or misinterpreting Leo. 

[Carl-Richard]

4 hours ago, Davino said:

It's very important, but not that important to get a lifelong debt for it. Unless you want to be a doctor, lawyer or engineer, in which case it's compulsory.

Or like 50 other high-earning jobs, mostly leader positions.

[Yimpa]

It’s probably important if you want to be a successful human being and respected in society. I personally don’t care about that.

[Davino]

On 3/9/2026 at 4:59 PM, Carl-Richard said:

Or like 50 other high-earning jobs, mostly leader positions.

Yes, that's true.

To make my point clearer: for regulated professions there's a systematic lock-in with university. For the rest of high earning jobs it becomes very complicated but some have done it, specially in the entrepreneur field.

[enchanted]

I wonder how much education Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj and Ramana Maharshi had? 

[Yimpa]

31 minutes ago, enchanted said:

I wonder how much education Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj and Ramana Maharshi had? 

The didn’t go to university. They became the Universe itself.

[Heaven]

22 minutes ago, Yimpa said:

The didn’t go to university. They became the Universe itself.

Haha nice one.

for a business owner(Not professional one) it’s really unnecessary but for almost any other high paying job it is.

It depends on your end goal. I wouldn’t go to university just to do it.(Waste of time and money).

[ambozza]

I'm 20 and from Switzerland. Next week I start my Bachelors in Business Psychology. It's a not as generalist as Business Administration (we have too many of those) and Psychology is a topic I'm interested in, even better combined with business.

If you'd ask me a year ago, I would've told you that I won't ever go to university. There has to be another way. And there ARE other ways. But I don't have career capital or a specific business idea to work on, so that's why I decided to sign up. If you decide not to go, you have to have some direction and I don't want to fall into procrastination or waste time. 

It's highly affordable in Switzerland which means no risk for me and as I wasn't completely clear in which direction I should move myself careerwise (took Life Purpose course a year ago), it was a logical next decision for me. 

It was important to me not to feel pushed into a path not meant for me. I feel quite insecure about career, but from my current point of view I want to have the resources available, and get those resources in the least ignorant way as possible (some ignorance will be needed I guess). Well, maybe I leave after one semester, who knows. It's my next step and I'm going all in to see where it takes me. 

Just recently, a 60 year old friend told me: „When you're young, just don't stick to the things you feel are not for you. That will save you a lot of time and energy.“

[Davino]

4 hours ago, enchanted said:

I wonder how much education Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj and Ramana Maharshi had? 

I guess not much, but they were intelligent.

However, that's false equivalence, some domains of Reality need more accumulation of knowledge and collective work than others for achieving mastery.