Agreed. I have boring classes to take at uni which I feel won't help me at all if I were to start a business. I'm glad you found whats good for you.

High school, and wouldn't change a thing. Never enjoyed higher education, always felt like I wasn't accomplishing anything worthwhile. Give me some tools and blueprints, and let me get to work.For the love of God please stop sending mechanics to school. The only way to learn is in the field.

I'm currently in 9th grade in Sweden, but should actually be in 8th grade, but I started one year earlier. After summer I will be going to something called "Gymnasium" for three years and will be studying in a specific field. In other words, I will start in a new school, which everyone in the whole country will be doing (depending if they want to skip it or not, but that % is very low).

Australia is pretty much the same. In most fields it is about what you know rather than you having a degree. In most white collar jobs people with experience get the job over a graduate from University. There are a few exeptions like Law, Medicine, Engineering and Pharmacy where you need to get the degree.  

From what I was told, America is the opposite, education their is valued  highly in most white collar jobs. People can't even get a white collar job without a college degree unless they know someone who can get them in.

Bachelor's Degree from a University. I view my experience two ways.

1. Job preparation - I'd say if I could go back I'd work more towards the networking and internships (which I did some, but more so I mean) as found out afterwards a high GPA is nice, but who you know carries much more. I struggled to find work (graduated in 2008, fun year for the economy) and had to settle for what I could find. Things have improved, left that place, and am part owner in a small business, but I think I did lose some time.

2. Self discovery - From this all I can say is would have hit the ground running at 18 meeting everyone I could. My University experience really kicked in third year as I was from then on involved in programs and groups. Honestly, I would not even recognize 18 year old me, and feel like those years in that regard were well spent.

True, it is often a stop gap measure as most 18 year olds are still clueless (I was) about what they wanted to do in life.  I think you have to evaluate what you want from schooling and a realistic measure of the costs and benefits.  If you do it strictly along an investment for work opportunities I agree that other avenues can be more advantagous. In terms of personal development, it is more ambiguous as some place value on growth and devlopment in aspects that are not directly correlated to their career field.  

One thing I will say is too many people take on far too much debt in the US thinking the degree will make it easy to pay off.  I worked through Univeristy and along with my scholarships graduated with zero debt.  I feel too many young people get sold an unrealistic expectation of income at 23 when they make that decision to take on 20K, 40k, or even 80K in debt.  So many end up moving back home and paying hundreds a month for years on loans.

finishing my masters degree by the end of the year or early next year :)

I graduated early from college and went to grad school. One good thing I did was switch from an ok university to one of the top 10. That was the right thing to do. I learned much at the first one, but the second one's clouts helps.

I wouldn't really change anything about my schooling, but would have used weights instead of machines at the gym. In general, so much of what you think is good, is really someone marketing things to people that don't really work that well.

Finishing my masters in physics at the moment, I'll be taking quals next month to get into the Ph. D this year, I'm in a bit of a "panic mode" right now..