Medication alert: I found something I agreed with on Fighting Bob.

It's a guest post by Stacie, of The Vast Dairy State Conspiracy.

An excerpt:

...in every school I attended, visited, or worked in, four-year college was considered the ultimate goal. The military, two-year colleges and trade schools were considered alternatives for those students who couldn’t make it academically. And forget about going to work right after high school.

I've often thought this same thing: that we've elevated the college degree to such an extent, and made it so easy to get one, that going to college has simply become the path of least resistance.

I wonder how many art history and english majors today wish they'd gone to welding school, instead.