AskSaidIt

Education was never the value of a Harvard degree. It was networking.

You can give yourself a Harvard level education for free on YouTube if you want. You'll lack the connections with other students faculty and future opportunities that come from it.

Lots of college education is grade A bullshit you've just got to regurgitate to get a degree but that doesn't change for a high rank college or a low rank one. Go to a liberal university and you'll have to do bullshit land acknowledgements. Christian university and they'll replace it with psych 101 classes where you learn about demons.

What a college degree shows employers is "this person will bite their tongue to get shit done" because you don't want to hire someone who is going to flip their shit when they find out where phone batteries really comes from. Liberal colleges simply have plenty of causes to capture the, to borrow Marxist terminology, revolutionary aspirations of the youth, and shunt it in directions that are largely harmless to the establishment which you see as woke ideology. All the while these students whine and complain about how sexist racist and colonialist the college administration is because of old statues or some shit they get themselves in crippling debt to get their degree and practically ensure they are unable, financially, to raise any effective opposition against the status quo when they grow up and stop being stupid.

So is college worth it? If you don't go I to debt for it I say yes. If you can ignore the bullshit and focus on networking with useful people and maintaining a career focus it is very good. But if you have to go into crippling debt for it you're probably better off just finding some shit job and working your way up the ladder if you're directionless like many young people are.