According to a new study, people born between 1986 and 1992 are on track to become the most educated generation in history. The percentage of 18 to 24 year olds enrolled in or graduated from college; is the highest it’s been in our history. This administration wants everyone to graduate college. I guess that’s supposed to be good news, but that’s really not how I see it. I think this will create many more problems than it will solve. Certainly we benefit from many among us becoming the academics, but who’s gonna do the work? Who’s gonna work on the farms and assembly lines? Who’s gonna mine the coal, or drive the trucks? The blue collar worker has always been the real backbone of America. Regardless of what our Emperor says, not everybody SHOULD go to the 4 plus years of non-stop partying they convince themselves is college. As a matter of fact, I believe it’s better for the nation if some folks don’t attend college, or at the very least have a clear and personally beneficial picture in mind of why they would want to. Very few should, and only through the benefit of their individual advanced intellect, go directly from high school to college. There should be a mandatory 2 years commitment to America for each high school graduate. Not exclusively military service, but 2 years of selfless service to the nation that will be made stronger with young people coming on-line with a diminished sense of entitlement. There should be 2 years where kids are not just taught, but shown that the world doesn’t revolve around them. Obviously, during that compulsory service, many would find a calling that simply doesn’t require advanced education, and more power to ‘em. Trade schools might be where they need to go, or maybe those 2 years will expose them to a lighted path that requires no further formal education at all. After that 2 years, if college is still their desire, then so be it. Good luck!! Study hard!! This would be good for our country. This isn’t a new idea, there are other countries, powerful and successful nations where this is their enforced transition from the child to the adult. If this were the law of our land, our colleges would welcome a much more focused and less party-oriented student body, (dude) and America would put much better educated and motivated people in the national work force. At least that’s my opinion, and this morning’s Small Town Soap Box.