> there is little taught in the actual classes that cannot be learned through alternative means.
You'd be ok with a do it yourself engineer, doctor, or accountant? You'd hire a lawyer who is self taught? I see you moving onto the usual punching bags of schools being hostile to free thought, but I'd say even your initial assumption is suspect.
If the engineer passed their PE exam, the doctor passed their boards, the accountant passed their CPA exams, and the lawyer passed the bar, I'd have no qualms about hiring any of them.
You'd be ok with a do it yourself engineer, doctor, or accountant? You'd hire a lawyer who is self taught? I see you moving onto the usual punching bags of schools being hostile to free thought, but I'd say even your initial assumption is suspect.