The cost and debt problems are outrageous and needs to be fixed.
But I don't understand the anti-college sentiment on HN. It's a feature that you can have no idea what you want to do at 18, start with a bio major, switch to history because you had a really good professor as a freshman, and then graduate to do something completely unrelated.
I get the impetus to see this an unimportant, but a trade-school only world is one with an even narrower elite, less scientific and historical literacy throughout the broader population, and more vulnerable to demagogues and conspiracy theories.
But I don't understand the anti-college sentiment on HN. It's a feature that you can have no idea what you want to do at 18, start with a bio major, switch to history because you had a really good professor as a freshman, and then graduate to do something completely unrelated.
I get the impetus to see this an unimportant, but a trade-school only world is one with an even narrower elite, less scientific and historical literacy throughout the broader population, and more vulnerable to demagogues and conspiracy theories.