Education is something I will encourage (and by encourage I mean, if you feel you are grown enough to be out of school, you are grown enough to move out of my house), but it isn’t the guarantee of success that generations have made it out to be. I didn’t not finish college, but many who did came to me on my knowledge of insurance laws that came from just experience of reading and referring to them over the years.
My grandfather (who died in 1965)went to the 2nd grade but was wicked smart. He designed blueprints and had a genius mind for equations and such. When he died, they replaced him with a 4 year college graduate to do the things he did and even lost business because his (my grandfather) buildings were so sturdy and had such a vast use of space he had a reputation for states around. He designed barns for free as his act of goodness the bible spoke of.
College is great, but people place too much emphasis on the piece of paper rather than what the classes taught while earning that paper.
This is not to discredit college as there are many more valuable things to learn there and I wish I had went myself. But I just hated to see freshly grad student waltz into my office with the idea that they knew far more than me and I had real life experience of how the world worked in my field. I usually had them straightened out in a year or so and they ended up being fine employees.
And if you had gone to college and taken English Grammar you would have known to write “I wish I had gone” rather than “I wish I had went.”