Why Is It Important To Enroll Or Not To Attend College Paid?

A widely discussed topic is that of furthering our knowledge through higher education, whether or not to attend college is a tremendously strenuous decision to make at this time in life. Although earning a degree does occasionally incline the chances of receiving a “superior” job and higher pay, does the 4 (or more) years of financial burden ever really pay off?
It is believed by many that the wages you receive could be a result of your type of degree or lack thereof. It is no secret that furthering on into the higher education system requires an exceptional amount of money, studies show that a majority of Americans (57%) say that the higher education system in the United States fails to provide students with good value for the money they and their families spend (Source F). Studies also show that the rewards for the time, energy, and money put into college are less than what they were a decade ago (Source C).
After college some students conclude that the debt they had accumulated throughout the years may weigh them down; making them struggle to pay bills, harder to buy a home, and even affecting their career choice (Source F).If going to college is supposed to increase the amount of money you earn but you can't enjoy it till you’ve paid off the thousands of dollars in debt you owe, when does the real pay off start?
Of the students that enroll and attend college only about 33 percent a four- year degree while estimated 43 percent receive a two- year degree ( Source F). What happens to those that could not continue on to receive their degree? How do they manage to pay off their
debts?
18 year olds fresh out of high school are so often rushed out, with a sense of panic about getting into college only to then be isolated in a cubicle for the remainder of their lives rather than going out and doing things they’d like to do such as learning to fix and build things (Source A). Without those who attend trade school or rather receive no education prior to high school that do many of the day to day things we have no experience to undertake, we would have no one to fix our pipes in our homes or repair the electrical circuits by the highway.
A main concern that parents have about sending their children to college is the cost. 48 percent of adults of the ages 18 to 34 say that they cannot afford to go to college (Source F), however there is the factor of financial aid. The average net tuition and fees at public 4 year colleges in 2011 were about $2,000, and although this is true it is also too good to be true since congress is planning to soon cut federal financial aid (Source D).
The higher education system seems to be redundant. Only contributing to a costly amount of debt and squandering the time students put into the processes of attempting to earn a degree. Not only could students be acquiring knowledge and experience from other fields they would rather work in, they would be “saving themselves from a mistake that’s hard to undo for the rest of their lives”(Source E).