Dont' discount the value of learning a skilled trade.

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

Yup, college has mostly become a scam. They convinced a generation that your success and happiness in life is directly related to getting a college degree, and that generation became teachers and the like. Those teachers spent their entire time convincing people that their happiness and success in life is dependent upon them going to college. So those people go to college, get a degree that may or may not actually be any use in their job, and end up in tons of debt while trying to find a job in their degree, only to find out that most of what they were taught isn't useful for anything other than teaching other people to get that degree, because they still have no job skills. So they end up working a couple part-time jobs to try and pay off their massive student loan debt... and they're already over 25% done with their lifespan.

Meanwhile someone who went to a trade school learned actual useful job skills, with real demand, and is ready to start working at the age of 18.

When everyone started going to college, the degree got vastly devalued. Now you need a Masters just to stand out of the crowd, which means more years and more debt. Now you have people going to school for 6-7 years to get a degree in something that qualifies them for absolutely nothing else besides teaching other people to get that degree.

Did you know there's actually a degree to become a librarian now? Yes, in order to restock books on shelves in alphabetical order, and help people find books, you need a college degree now. Seriously.