[panarky]

I tell my grandkids that vocational school is a perfectly decent and honorable way to get into a trade that pays better than retail.

I also tell them that a good university is a perfectly decent and honorable way to begin a life of the mind. It's not the only way, and a life of the mind isn't the life everyone wants.

I also tell them that the purpose of a university education is mostly not about training for a job.