Of course I don’t think that. Check out my posts here over the last 17 years. The bullshit indoctrination you properly refer to is so simple that the guys we are talking about learned it even though they did drop out.
You really ready to say that an actual engineering degree (for example) would have been a bad idea?
I read the article as saying that tech titans would be better off with more background in the traditional humanities. I agree, I just think that the author's prescription for acquiring that knowledge, time spent in college, is far more likely to be an impediment in acquiring such knowledge.