"But sir, I have a master's degree in applied science... Do I really need to sweep..."

Boss - "Oh, I'm sorry, here I'll show you how..."

Frankly there's been too much focus on education in the worst aspect of it; Quantity over quality. The "No Child Left Behind" scam, using hoops to jump through as an excuse to deny federal funding, forcing schools back on the path of being "Route Memorization" factories to hurt the real intellectual and emotional development.

It ends up with just a gauntlet they only put up with, because at the end of it there's supposedly a "College Degree" that will get them a "Good Job". One they'll hate and be bored to tears in, but will "Pay the bills"...

Except, those jobs are going out the door, replaced by "McJobs" that are low paying dead end jobs and even worse than the high paying pointless ones they replaced.

Not that education does not need to be reformed. Most notably in teaching how to think, how to learn, not what to learn and what to think. My parents, despite being "Hippies" read me a lot of ancient Greek stuff, not just the myths but the dramas, the discourses. Simply put, the ancient greek "Acadamy" model, the "Classical Education" is the basis of our western civilization. I'm almost outraged how little most other people seem to know about even the most basic principles of logic and debate.