Polling shows Americans don't think college is worth it
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🗓️ 15 September 2025
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| 0:00.0 | polling polling polling yeah there's a perceived uh importance of college education |
| 0:08.4 | allegedly because there's this new poll that says that uh people don't think it's that important |
| 0:14.0 | anymore it has dropped to a new low this is a gallop poll it's kennel and casey by the way |
| 0:19.8 | okay so what what does the poll say? |
| 0:21.7 | Only 35% of U.S. adults now say a college education is, quote, very important. Yeah. Okay. |
| 0:29.2 | So this stuff all sort of like culminated in, because I remember this, my mother was a high school |
| 0:35.7 | English teacher. And in the 90s, they divided the kids |
| 0:41.9 | basically into two paths, right? There was what they called college prep and what they called tech |
| 0:47.2 | prep, which meant, hey, you're not going to a four-year institution. Maybe, you know, maybe you do a two-year |
| 0:52.8 | an apprenticeship, you know, whatever, right? |
| 0:54.7 | And they prepared kids based on that. |
| 0:58.2 | Like you sort of chose the path and then boom. |
| 1:00.4 | And then somewhere along the way, they started almost like shaming you. |
| 1:05.6 | Remember the time I was in high school. |
| 1:08.0 | Basically, it was unacceptable to not have some sort of college, you know, |
| 1:14.3 | part of your career path or whatever where, and I don't know why. |
| 1:19.8 | I mean, I'm sure that the education institutionalists, you know, kept at it long enough |
| 1:27.4 | that they got us thinking along those lines. And now, you know, kept at it long enough that they got us thinking along those lines. |
| 1:30.4 | And now, you know, 25 years or whatever later, 20, 25 years later, people are kind of wise to, |
| 1:37.5 | hey, there's a lot of careers that are really good and pay a lot of money. |
| 1:41.1 | And you don't need a college degree for it. |
| 1:43.1 | That's right. |
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