That’s a nice ideal, but it ended around 1965 or so. Employers aren’t suddenly going to provide more OJT training, they will just find other applicants. While I am all for personal growth during and after college, upon graduation my kids needed to pay the now average apartment cost of $2k, have health insurance, and buy food. It is not cheap to live in most coastal cities anymore. The workplace may be evolving slowly in the future, but they need to eat in the present