@RedDeerGuy1 I have to disagree with you. There are tons of things out there that only exist in book forms and not Google. Google only offers you a quick answer, but if you need to dig further, the amount of information you need will be too much for an Internet article to hold. Beside, a lot of articles take their references from books. Ultimately, what separates someone who knows a lot and an expert is the depth of their knowledge.
And it’s a misconception that universities are just another place to stuff your head with knowledge. You don’t just learn knowledge in universities, you learn a myriad of other skills like communication skills, cooperation skills, research skills… Whoever can’t learn those at universities is just too bogged down by the “boring” tasks that they just want school year to pass.
If what you said were true, universities and libraries would have died out long ago.