Most undergraduates only extend the skill set of "how to go to school" rather than coming to grips with the task of providing for oneself through industriousness and resourcefulness in the workaday environment.
Make them prove they can do that before sending them to an institution to rape with consent withdrawn after the fact, to consume toxins until one is regularly blotto, and toss firecrackers and verbal barbs at one another.
I know, because I did it the wrong way the first time, myself. And the fraternity life was a factor multiplier in this, not a helper.
My salvation was that I distinctly failed, and after maturation got a second chance. I hate to think what my life would have been if I just barely passed the course work, got the degree, and thus never got the second chance.
“My salvation was that I distinctly failed, and after maturation got a second chance. I hate to think what my life would have been if I just barely passed the course work, got the degree, and thus never got the second chance.”
Same here; I haven’t been back to school in almost a decade and I intend to go when I can afford it. I’m not getting myself into debt and having problems concentrating because of worries about how to pay off my loans.