To make up for “All the CRAP (they) learned in high skool”
The greatest misconception of all time. Not everyone is wired to be a doctor, lawyer or corporate executive... but would be excellent mechanics, plumbers, electricians or farmers.
It's almost abusive to convince a young adult into believing they aren't going to "measure up" in society without a college degree... when they don't want it or struggle with the academics.
Why does everybody have to go to college? Because high schools are failing to educate their charges. Look at the number of remedial courses given to incoming freshmen. I have a number of highly successful and intelligent friends who never went to college. But then they graduated in the early 1960’s.
Had I apprenticed instead of going to college I rather imagine I would be a much more prosperous now than I am.