I have said it a million times before and I will say it as long as necessary to fix our employment-education conundrum: you do not learn how to work by sitting in class, you learn to work by going to work. We need publicly subsidized apprenticeships to replace the assumed role of the outrageously expensive 4 year college degree as the primary means of acquiring skills for the modern labor force.<p>There is a place for higher education - I must say so, for it is my employer - but it cannot be expected to be the sole gateway to the middle class. My grandfather was a combat engineer in WWII and quit his unenthusiastic GI Bill college career to start a successful restaurant instead. College doesn&#x27;t work for everybody - working does.