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Is College Worth It? (Kenyon Commencement Speech (schooling is"…

- - - - you need to get students who are no where near the margin bewteen attending & not attending
    - - 1/3 of 2013 high school graduates weren't enrolled in college
      - wages after high school w/o a bachelors degree
        
        gas plant operators
        
        real estate brokers
        
        boiler makers
        
        postal service mail carriers
        
        police & sheriff's patrol officers
        
        property managers
        
        telecommunication line installers & repairers
    - - if everyone attended college you would have to increase labor supply of college grads
        
        decrease the suplly of high school grads
        
        relative wages that determine the returns to a college education would shift
- - - - they accept everyone
      - you can start being independent: first independent thought, study, ect
    - - more affordable future
      - able to dream better about future wants, not so much stress about money
    - - students who come from low-income families can still go to college
      - still a college education, doesn't have to be from a fancy school