Do you getting a college education is a good thing?

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Maybe a college education would help you type the word "think".

Seriously though, it's good for some people, not for others. It completely depends on your career goals. Some careers require it.

You can get a pretty solid education without college if you are autodidactic. Note the number of tech founders who dropped out of college, including Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Steve Jobs.

A liberal arts degree will get you exactly nothing except deep in debt, but if you want to be a doctor or an aerospace engineer, you need college degrees. With perhaps the exception of Jack Parsons, founder of JPL. You should read about him, it's a wild ride.