"We should most certainly stop preaching that one must go to college to get a “decent job.” This is quite inappropriate in the USA where only 30% of the jobs require a college degree. The careers available to non-college degree holders range from farming to the service industry to the transportation industry, to building, to writing, to entertaining and to sports. If what is meant by a decent job is one that pays enough to support a decent standard of living, we fall far short as a nation in legislating that every full-time worker be paid a minimum wage sufficient to pay for a decent living. Our objective should be to produce high school graduates who can realistically decide whether to continue education in trade school, or in a two-year or four-year college or to go right into the job market—who will use every opportunity to exercise his/her right to vote with a familiarity of the issues debated by the candidates.
Bob Simon"
