How much do you value education?

[Unorthodox]

I know some schools offer AP tests that, with a high enough score on the tests, allow people to skip one or more courses in the calculus sequence. The schools in my area also offer another AP English that allow students to skip the freshmen undergraduate courses.

I tested out the AP Calculus my Junior year, and found myself bored to tears with the early college courses of physics and chemistry that followed my senior year (both of which amounted to applying the Calculus I had learned, and I had no trouble making the connection that some seemed to).  Testing every Friday accounted the majority of the grade in each class.  It took me a month to decide I would only go on Friday to either class, and passed both courses (so in a way tested out), but would have been barred from graduation based on lack of attendance had I not been a student counselor and thus able to gain the requisite public service hours required to make up attendance at will.  I would have been better served being allowed to take the next calculus course, or better yet getting work release to move out of my parents house earlier.

I would admittedly benefit from an English course, but don't find it worth my time/money. 

[Dio]

I have very few comparsions upon which to compare the standards of various people because I had very limited contact with the public school system.

[Lorizael]

Having made a conscious effort to return to school, the biggest thing that school has taught me is what to learn. Even in college, you end up teaching yourself a lot of the material for any given course. The difference is that you learn it in a focused, systematic way that increases the odds of you knowing material relevant to whatever it is that you've decided to study. Total self-learning can be done, but you always run the risk of sending yourself down some useless dead end and not realizing it, or of learning only in a superficial way because you're unaware of how much you don't know.

[Buster's Uncle]

...I used to embarrass myself with the gaps in my education A LOT more often.  College cut way down on those moments - though reading on my own and thinking about it ever since has a great deal to do with that, too...