is school truly even needed

Some companies require a higher education, because they have to make sure that you know what you are doing within the field of business the company compete in. That is understandable. That we can all agree on. So let me quote one thing from the short sentence: "higher education". Now let me quote something from Wikipedia: "Education in its general sense is a form of learning in which the knowledge, skills, and habits of a group of people are transferred from one generation to the next through teaching, training, or research."[1]. Companies want people that have learned a higher knowledge and better skills within their field. To make sure we have those, we have school diplomas, a piece of paper which states: "The student ______ knows his ****...", and that is what they want. The Paper Of Proof Of Knowledge And Skills. School was made so that all kids could get this education from relatively cheap to completely free, because at that time it was harder to get skills and knowledge within many areas. That was because the only way you could get the knowledge was trough expensive books, or in the library if they had it, and other hadn't lent it; getting skills was also hard sometimes do to the prices of the materials. However that time is long past for many people, except many poor country. Countries who are extremely liberal, like USA, also got a bit of the problem, with the poorest simply don't have money to do anything. Today we can get cheap books, read FREE online about all the knowledge in the world. You don't even need a lot of money to get most materials to experiment with your skills within most areas. If you want to learn about anything, you can easily get that information. Can you gain the knowledge and skills which compares equally or over that of a school diploma? Yes. You. Can. So basically, if you easily with minor resources can get the skill and knowledge required for the dream job of your life, why do you then need to go to the school? All you need is the diploma. Do you know the thing called self-study? You go to a school, tell them you want to enroll but under self-study, they give you a list of all the books which the other student get to learn with (you have to acquire them yourself if you want to), list of what knowledge and skill you will need and be tested on, and some dates. The dates will be where you go either to a meeting and telling about how it goes with your self-education, and the date of the final exam. Now as I explained above, you can easily gain the knowledge and skill required by yourself. Now you might argue that you in the end still need the school to even become a self-educating student, but that is because of the current system. In its place, we could put a small building, a few school workers hired. You just go up the desk, tell them you name and show you ID, and then they can just give you list. Easy. You can then dedicate some time for it, maybe even learn in an alternative way than schools do now a days. Now before I close round 2 in this debate, I would like to state, that school probably will still be needed if you put the system in I explained above. Why? Because that is just how some learn best. Some learn best by themselves, some need to be put behind a desk and told to listen. No human is the same. However to this date, I have only seen 3 in 30 of students, finding school to be the best way of learning, and every person I know who ever done self-study, all got better grades were done earlier than the others. But is school truly even needed? No, we have alternatives, some even right now seems better than school right now. Source: [1] http://en.wikipedia.org...