I think it's the opposite.
Too many people are forceably indoctrinated using a one-fits-all approach.
Being educated is a great thing, however, too many people are being told that they have to receive a certain kind of education over the one that is best for them.
Is it better if someone learns how to frame a house when they can use it to make money? Or spend a semester learning Native American history?
Sorry, little Bobby isn't going to be a Geneticist. He's got the skills to be an electrician or carpenter though.
"HELL NO, little bobby is going to college! He's going to be a genius. He must go to college or he's going to be unsuccessful in life!"
So Bobby goes into debt learning how to be a Geneticist, but decides that it's not going to happen. Now he's got a pile of debt and no direction.
I think we as a people need to start putting A LOT more time, money, and effort into developing really good vocational schools. Not just the places where "the dumb kids go" in the afternoons, as it went in my high school.
The funny thing is, some of these "dumb kids" became welders, contractors, and mechanics that are making a lot more than some of their college bound counterparts that spent a great deal of money on a degree that sits on the shelf while they're waiting tables or whatever.
We need to stop pushing the thought that everyone needs to go to college, or the thought that everyone deserves to go to college.
Edit: I think every child deserves the change to go to college. Some just will never make it. They need a viable alternative than the ones we have now.
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