As someone who dropped out of high school and took a gradual, but relatively direct route to pretty well-paid work my opinion on College has changed quite a bit

As someone who dropped out of high school and took a gradual, but relatively direct route to pretty well-paid work my opinion on College has changed quite a bit over the years. So much so that at the moment, I'm working full-time and a full-time student. I'm not sure what to say about this article. It makes a few points, but there's a lot there which is just odd. I see this issue being less about what colleges are providing than the motivations and expectations of the students and particularly parents paying into them. The common perception seems to be that degree is a binary thing, a membership with guarantees on either side. A princely income in a related field for members and a lifetime of poverty beneath a glass ceiling for non-members. Recognize college as a multiplier more than a membership and none of this is particularly surprising. Freakonomics did a pretty interesting series on College [0] providing an outlook far less dreary than this piece. 0: http://freakonomics.com/2012/07/30/freakonomics-goes-to-college-part-1-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/ http://freakonomics.com/2012/07/30/freakonomics-goes-to-coll...