<p>Perhaps part of the problem is that we increasingly rationalize and promote higher education primarily as a means of advancing economic opportunity. When people realize that education does not necessarily lead directly or logically to employment, it violates all the expectations they have been trained to have. </p>
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<p>I agree.</p>
<p>There are also people, like many stay-at-home parents and volunteers, who are “overeducated” but whose educations enrich their lives and the lives of the people they care for in non-tangible ways.</p>