> If you go to university because you want a job, you're a fool. Even if that's what your elders had been telling you all your life? I'm not saying it's their

> If you go to university because you want a job, you're a fool. Even if that's what your elders had been telling you all your life? I'm not saying it's their fault either; after all it worked for them [1], so it made sense to pass on a working theory. I just don't think it's apt to label a young person foolish just because they listened to the (flawed) wisdom of the more experienced. [1] I'm speaking only of the U.S. Baby Boomer generation like my parents, since that's all I'm qualified to speak of.