What is the best investment, in your opinion? To use this money to pay for your education, so you can conclude a superior course and achieve a higher degree, having access to a wide jobs' market, or to use that money to acquire an apartment, house or piece of land, so you can make a passive income from this?
It brings the following question up: what is more valued in life: to be or to have? Does it make someone fulfilled to have while not being or being without having anything?
This question may vary from different people because we have different beliefs and values in life. But for me, I would choose to allocate my funds to pay for education. As a person who puts high value in education, I believe that this is something that other people cannot take away from you and acquiring education lasts for a lifetime. Yes, we can argue that there are free courses out there and you can rely on different resources, but it's still different if you have your degree. It's like a passport in which leads you to a lot of opportunities.
This can also depend on your country. In our case, having education is a high of importance because most of the industries and job opportunities here requires you to have a degree, even jobs like baristas and service crews are expecting you to finish at least secondary school or even college. This is sad, but living in a developing country means you need to work twice as hard because there are less opportunities, especially for those people who doesn't have a degree or finish their school.
Now, we can also argue that most of successful people did not finish their college like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. But the reality is, you're not Bill Gates nor Steve Jobs.