a degree, nowadays, is a product that you purchase on a market. i don't like that, but i came to terms with it a very long time ago.
that doesn't mean you shouldn't go to school, if you can afford it, or if buying that degree is a step on the path to the life that you want to live.
but, the premise of "consulting experts" has been broken by the marketization of education; the sanctity of the process has been utterly decimated, and it is now as easy to find an expert in a topic without a degree in it as it is to find somebody with a degree that doesn't have a clue what they're talking about. the affirmation process has become meaningless for any substantive or meaningful purpose.
it really doesn't mean anything at all.
so, yeah - i'm adamant about my anarchism, and we're not keen on divisions of labour or hierarchies of knowledge. but, i claim my rejection of formal education is empirical.
the best and worst schools are all diploma mills at this point, because all you're really doing is purchasing the product, for sale.