The Purpose Of Higher Education

I am noticing a very strange attitude that people display in their interpretations of the purpose of higher education.  Specifically, they have established a weird little DICHOTOMY that has the contenders as Higher Education *versus* Working.

This would by necessity delve into the reasons whyyyy people pursue higher education.  Is it to secure their futures by training for complex jobs?  Or it is just to learn random stuff, factoids, tidbits??

[[[[sniff haughty disapproval
in the process of obtaining a college degree
That's so plebeian.     ((((VOICE MEMO look at))

With the tooootally astounding! shocking!, completely unexpected! end goal of actually getting a freakin' job.  (In place of the exclamation points, picture those old onomatopoeia interjections from the 1960s Batman TV show.)

mind-bending purpose of____

unforeseen
heretofore unseen end goal
of actually *getting* a job.]]]]]]

They think that concrete disciplines necessitate the characteristic of simplicity.  Like the skilled labor trades___

two different weird little [[[interpretations]]]]] that combine into a double whammy to make middlle class whites entirely unemployable.
[[two diff weird little [[subconscious that unintentionally repels them away from ,__ that attack from differne angles of their psyche, which converge to make them avoid liearning the skilled labor trades.
they think it is too gross and too much hard work; why suffer through that indignity if they don't have to;
and they think it is much too simple, and their bourgeoisie minds are far too valuable to waste on that plebeian trivia.
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...Learn one of the skilled trades...
They think they are too good to work with their hands___  Eeeeeeeeewwwwyooooouuuuuu, touching a carburetor?  Gross.  Touching a patient?  Gross.
They think that they are above doing any physical labor.