Learn all you can on your own before you spend any money on a school.
don’t spend any money on a school until you have found that there are some things you have to know…that you can learn only (or most easily) in schools.
–John Holt in Growing Without Schooling, Issue 12
That may have just made my whole college education seem worthless. 😉 I sure learned more in the woods than I ever did in the classroom (and retained it, too!)