The purpose of a college education is NOT to get a job, it is to learn critical thinking, how to evaluate material, how to study and become skilled at ongoing education, to broaden your vistas and to explore the great and the forgotten ideas that have shaped our world. These are abilities that will be of benefit to anyone who gains them, whether in a specific field or for a person who never seeks out of home employment. In the best situations a higher education should be both broad and in some area deep. If you only think an education should be given to learn for a job, there is no reason to go to high school either. Most people didn't before the 1940's.
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