You are completely wrong about college!

But, in the opposite way you think.

Everything i learned in college i later learned was wrong!

and i took a lot of science, business and other supposedly "useful" fields.

You speak of apprenticeships, and well that they went away, and that college is the new apprenticeship... the problem is these classes are mostly taught by people who have never actually done the job. So, they cannot, except by shear luck, teach you how to do the job you are going to do.

In fact, many programming companies are trying to get kids straight out of high school, so that they do not have to unlearn them from the college shit.

The problem came about by this statement.

People who go to college make xx% more money.

The problem is, this is accurate, but only in a correlation kind of way.
The people who go to college are more intelligent and dedicated. These people would make more money even if there wasn't any college.

Further, most of the really rich people didn't go, or dropped out of college.

Because, in school, in all grades, they fail to teach you the most important life lessons. Those about money and how to make money.

And that is because... these teachers and professors have never done that.
They can't teach it.