There is something seriously wrong with society when accountants run the world. Money is a tool, education provides long term wealth and stability. Providing fuel for people considering skipping collage is very short sighted.
It's saddening, yet unsurprising, that the whole discussion here on HN is around wealth and few people mentioned learning minor skills like time management and writing or partying and making friends.
In other countries, universities are/were usually seen as a way to cultivate your mind.
Quoting wikipedia on "culture":
The modern term "culture" is based on a term used by the Ancient Roman orator Cicero in his Tusculanae Disputationes, where he wrote of a cultivation of the soul or "cultura animi,"[2] using an agricultural metaphor for the development of a philosophical soul, understood teleologically as the highest possible ideal for human development.
