If you need school to develop your education, you’ve already lost. This is the dichotomy of formal education: those that require it won’t benefit by virtue of the requirement and those that don’t won’t need it to become educated. Education is something you have to pursue for it to have much value. You can’t educate people that don’t care, and people that care are often quite capable of educating themselves. Is the purpose to chase credentials or to be a maximally functional human?

Far too many cultures conflate collecting credentials with a constructive education. A low-key advantage of US culture is that they care far less about educational credentials than most cultures in most contexts; people motivated to educate themselves outside formal processes are given proper consideration.