Skill is good and educational certificate is also good. Having any of them can actually put food on your table, but the question is which of them will you let go for the other. I mean education can get you a white collar job the same way a skill can too. For me i will let go of the skill because skill without basic education is not good at all. Because I have seen a situation whereby a guy with good skill who got a job was unable to give quotation and he lost the job .Formal education is good for everyone.
Mark zukerberg left education for skill, bull gates left school for skill, Wizkid arguably the biggest afrobeat musician in the world left education for skill!. This guys and other who left education for skill have one thing in common and that is they were sure of themselves and what they wanted to do was obvious to them.
You can’t leave education for skill when you haven’t learnt the skills or aren’t sure about which skill you can do.
If you are schooling and your skill haven’t yet given you that confidence you should not drop out from school, you can multi task or even complete your education then keep transforming your skill.