>Your life will be battered by bad, uneducated decisions that you spend most of your time trying to fix.

I feel like this type of education is the one that you get at home rather than at school. No amount of continually lowering standards, affirmative action, and pushing people through "higher" education will ever fix this.

Problem is, there is a prisoners' dilemma type situation with college. It would be best if nobody went, but nobody wants to be the one left out in case not everyone agrees to do so. So the result is that people waste more and more money on useless degrees, putting those in lower classes into more trouble by trying to better their lives(or just excluding those who won't take the risk).