I take it that the above is your agreement that your post that only the dumb and lazy go to college was a little OTT.
Never!
In the interest of full disclosure I will say that I do not have a degree. I have worked at the supervisory level and hired both degreed and non-degreed people. Actually you couldn't tell much difference in their work, altho those who “came up” through the manual labor path were much more apt to be on-time or early to their job station/desk.
I did find some of the college graduates rather angry when non-grads were promoted over them. They seemed to think they had earned recognition by virtue of their degree regardless of their performance. They also seemed to have a predisposition to disqualify, out of hand, any who did not have a degree. The two best employees I ever had were not college graduates, but they did have around 15 years of experience in the job area.
Personally I believe there are two roads to success and both depend on the person. College certainly won't hurt you if you can overcome the propaganda spewed in some courses, but hard work and determination are still required when you finally get THE JOB. For those who choose to skip college and start work right out of highschool there is also opportunity, but the chances are it will be much more difficult to access that opportunity and take much longer.
However, those non-grads who persevere and do finally get the chance seem to excel over those who are given it because of their education. I believe it is because the windowing out process is much more severe. Just my personal experience.