I'm not college educated. I agree school kills genuine intellectual curiosity. A complete kill joy.

My computer experience comes a lot from books I got from a library while I was in elementary, the built in help menu in the windows command line and later in life from job experience and then again hobbyist interest learning Linux.

My knowledge of neurons is from YouTube, a few academic papers I found online and a biohacker dedicated to open science (The Thought Emporium).

When I read some boring academic paper, the fun I get out of it is from daydreaming up magical future possibilities.