I believe education is very important

Both formal education such as instruction in foreign/modern and ancient/classical languages, social sciences, science, mathematics, English/writing/reading/phonics, technology ( computer literacy), art, crafts, and home economics, etc. I also believe in up-skilling and self education. Elective education and vocational training are also really important too. So the minimum of education for being literate is graduation from high school or its equivalent. Post secondary education also helps make people more intellectually stimulated and helps with economic prosperity or at least it should. Whichever route a person takes whether it is a vocational certificate or diploma, an associates degree, a bachelors degree, a masters degree or a phd doctorate. Also apprenticeships are good career training options as well. The point is post secondary education of some kind is usually needed for economic prosperity. Unless of course you took the well rounded education interspersed with vocational training in secondary school then maybe you completed skills training earlier. Some people start a business but you need to be literate and educated enough to understand market trends and do taxes and such. I’m going to finish my higher education after my vocational training. I also learn new skills and information on my own time too. Education is also important so you don’t get permanently stuck in minimum wage jobs with no career progression or advancement. Although college graduates today ( like my sister) are underemployed and working jobs they could have done without even a high school diploma. Some are completely unemployed. I still believe a solid higher education can’t be taken away from you but it has gotten ridiculously expensive and unfortunately a university degree is not guaranteeing a good paying career related to what you studied like it did say twenty-five to thirty years ago. It’s disheartening and a crying shame. I wouldn’t say college is a scam especially if you enjoy intellectually challenging yourself, but it doesn’t carry the prestige it once did. I could kick myself. I was one year away from having my bachelors. Now I will go back to school as an older adult. First I’m finishing some workforce training so I can learn skills to obtain work for a remote and flexible career position. It will also help pay for my education while in school even if it’s just one course at a time. I will never take out student loans again or rather my parents took it out for me. In fact I still have student loans my parents are helping me pay off. I should have learned a vocational skill first when I was 18 and graduated high school that I could have used for a flexible and remote career. I could have gotten a certification and then worked for a year or two then saved up some money for school on a part time basis. That way it may have taken some more years to finish but I would be debt free for a bachelors and then a masters degree. I could have worked 25-30!hours per week while taking one or two classes at a time. That way I also could have bypassed crappy minimum wage jobs and started with a decent job that only took a few. Months to a year to train for. Hindsight is 20/20. I could graduated school debt free even if it was later in life and as long as I got my education I could have worked even in old age. The problem before is I was trying to rush through my education and get it done as fast as possible only in four years. That was my goal but now I see it didn’t matter if I took another five or ten years or more to finish so long as I finished. I know most people don’t want to wait that long to finish their education and when I was younger I would have gotten fed up with taking so long to finish but now I see that would have been perfectly ok. Anyway education is still important to me and I’m going to need it to have a career I can truly do well. Maybe I’ll even get off disability benefits and work high end part time hours like 30 hours a week. Though giving up disability benefits might be risky because they are my safety net.