Where the immigrants coming off the boats at Ellis island picking up jobs building a new nation educated in college? was it the college educated who worked the steel mills and produced the steel for WWI and WWII? No it wasn't. There has been more great things done in this country that this country benefited from by non college educated people then there ever has been done by those who went to college.
And lets back away for a moment on this, was this thread originally about college or K-12? Because I don't know, the OP never said.
the immagrants that got off Ellis Island did not have to need a further education because there was no such thing as a technology revolution.
That still doesn't take away from the fact that people can make it, and earn good money without a college education. People who work in my field can make up to $150,000 a year, without college, if they try to. It's my goal, and I know I can reach it.
That may not sound like much in some parts of this country, but for where I live, that's alot of cabbage and my children would never want or need for anything.