High-Stakes Gamble: Is College Still Worth It?

My son says “College is bullshit” — and he’s only 10 years old — my physician told me. The boy had already decided he would not go, and his father, an Ivy League graduate with a prestigious specialty practice, was uncertain how to respond. He said to me, tentatively: “​Okay, he has to graduate from high school, but then…Well, he has to do something, but not necessarily college.” I could hear the bewilderment in his voice.