My undergrad education was at a liberal arts college. I thought all the time I spent in liberal arts courses was a waste. I was going to be a physicist. Why did I have to take courses in history, government, literature, composition, and a foreign language?
Well, some fifty years later, I know why. I spent a career as a scientist, in and out of the Air Force. Those liberal arts courses have stood me in good stead over the years. My technical education taught me how to do something. My liberal education taught me why some things were worth doing and some were not. I wouldn't trade that liberal education for anything.
Wright brothers never went to college and their high school and grade school math gave them a superior understanding of mathematics and physics—more so than any colleges can today.
Math classes were excellent—even only six years of “education” gave you superior English and math skills prior to the evil communist John Dewey who, along with the Fabian Socialists, destroyed American “education” for social engineering and mass indoctrination and Pavlovian conditioning into socialism (anti-Christian ideology). Ben Franklin was done with “school” by age 12 and probably started school at 8. Thomas Jefferson was in law school by 16 or so and he was excellent in math, and other languages, plus superior in English skills. He was tutored.
Orville and Wilber didn’t need “college” math to figure out that all the physics and mathematics concerning flight on gliders, etc. was WRONG......because they went to schools that taught Classical math/English, etc.—not the dumbed-down system Dewey put in to destroy the minds of children (on purpose).
John Saxon created a Math curriculum in the 80s or so because he was SHOCKED at how stupid the grade school/high school system made everyone in math-— that children graduating from high school were ignorant when it came to mathematics and worse in physics. A lot of homeschool children use the Saxon Method.
The school system destroys virtue formation in children intentionally, so they can never be good at anything-—no virtue—no ability to learn and master anything.