Education is important. But sometimes, some people learn what they have to learn long before they are supposed to graduate. These people drop out and continue to learn in their own way. Some of them don’t even have formal education at all. For a gifted and dedicated personality, not even lack of education is an impediment.
Both the Wright brothers didn’t graduate high school. But when you want to fly for real, you go ahead and do it anyway.
There was a time when we thought that only humans were capable of thought and self-awareness. Jane Goodall observed Chimps and found out that even apes use tools.
The whopper is that Jane didn’t have any formal science education. She just went on the field and made friends with the chimps, studying them deeply.