To Attend or Not to Attend?

The following people have at least one thing in common. Abraham Lincoln, Bill Gates, Rosa Parks, Harry Truman and Steve Jobs never earned a college degree though Bill Gates was awarded an honorary degree a few years back. This is not to criticize these people. Far from it!!

I point this out because our society seems to be in the throes of the mentality that if one doesn't get a college degree then something must be wrong with them. It's as if there is a 'all or nothing' mentality regarding the matter. Plenty of people simply don't want to go to college.

Many of these individuals have skill sets that aren't part of university curriculum. A good number simply want to be done wutg any type of schooling for a variety of reasons; they don't like school, they want to set out on their own or they want a trade career.

It is time that our society, parents, schools and other agencies did something other than say that college is the only pathway to success.

Dick