I think with this our dying economy we don't know if school is important because there are graduates everywhere and in every year by years we have millions of graduates in the labor market sources for job and works, those who goes to school hardly makes a living making life too difficult for them to survive that is why we always have this slogan that school is scam. Of curse school will be scam if we don't have a good governance in the system, school is not scam when we have a good and functioning economy where every graduates do have work after leaving school.
if the two are available then you won't have any financial issues at all because if your degree does not give you a job then your skill will give you one so is just as if any of the two will put food on your table. I love skills that have to do with construction, fashion, and many more because these are things that people need. at the same time, I don't blame the Igbos for saying school is a waste of time since they believe in trading rather than going to school. look at what is happening globally with the issue of unemployment. but does that have served their master well during trade will be settled and they will start making money? and does that only rely on their degree will be wandering around looking for jobs and at the end of the day they will be known. seriously business open does for a lot of people. going to school is not bad but the government has made it lose its value and now people feel school is useless just because it can not offer them anything. and left to me both school and skill can be acquired so that anyone that is available to feed you then you make use of it.