The world needs uneducated masses.

Bud Whitley

When discussing the value of college education, resources tend to focus on one of two view points. The pro-college approach discuses the economical and social benefits of higher education: Jeff McGuire of collegevew.com writes, “Attending college provides opportunities for graduates which are not as widespread to those who have not received a higher education.” Whereas the anti-college approach discuses the few super rich who didn’t go to college: as found on Forbis.com, “Bill Gates, who dropped out of Harvard to start Microsoft, certainly doesn’t fit the stereotype of a low paid college dropout.” However, neither the pro-college or anti-college advocates discuss the need for uneducated masses that allow the civilized world to function.

If everyone in the world went to college, or became the next Bill Gates, then the entire world would come to a standstill. If everyone had the education to engineer, or doctor, or lawyer, who all had a need and a demand for goods and services that do not require a higher education, who then would fulfill that need and that demand? Without the men and women who do the jobs that do not require a degree, the world would not function. Engineers, doctors, and small business owners all need food, running water, and trash picked up. If they lead there successful, college educated lives, then they don’t have the time or the ability to take care of those needs. They need the people who didn’t go to college in order to live the lives they made for themselves. Not everyone can go to college or become the next great self-employed business person; the world needs the uneducated masses to get the jobs done that need doing.