Easier to brainwash into doing evil i guess
In some cases, it might be so: most programmers, for example, don’t actually need formal education and could be better specialists after self-educating themselves on actual and important things.
Sure, you don’t need CS for a lot of ordinary day-to-day programming, but one day your lack of contextual understanding means you’ll reinvent the wheel badly and cause problems. You benefit from having some sense of the bigger picture, and often the easiest way to acquire that is through courses designed by people who know what you don’t know you don’t know. I think saying programmers don’t need higher education is like saying politicians don’t need to study philosophy: sure, you can get the job done in ordinary circumstances, but you won’t be aware how blinkered your view is by a lack of context, and how this limits your ability to understand what you’re seeing and imagine better solutions.
your lack of contextual understanding means
Listen, it isn’t XVII century anymore. Anyone can read and books are plentiful and cheap. Specialized institutions don’t grant an unique access to some secret data.
They do grant you access to people with a good idea of what you need to know and how to teach it though. Not exclusively, but you always need to find an expert to learn from one way or another, and you need to give it time, which people don’t necessarily have while working.