Flagpole wrote:
A college education is not needed for all people or even most people.
FP and I have limited points of agreement, but this is one.
The average IQ of (four-year) college graduates is ~115 (or was--the four-more-years-of-high-school-ization of many colleges may have brought the average closer to 110). That's one standard deviation above the mean, so it's above ~84% of the population.
Of course, the 115 is an *average* and so a 135, for example, offsets two 105s (we're talking about more than 16% of the population, in other words). There are doubtless many college grads below 110; even a few, though only a few, below 100: hard-working and highly motivated students who grind out degrees.
But the fact remains: A four-year college education is not needed by a majority of Americans and not helpful to them; and the attempt to gain one can mean decades of "loan slavery" for them, hindering wealth accumulation and entrepreneurship. The "everyone should go to college" meme is pernicious.