See Puffy, in the US university isn't free but the credit is easy. We have community colleges that guarantee acceptance and many state require state universities to accept community college graduates. On top of that you have a bunch of for-profit schools that offer useless degrees to ignorant people who come out of the horrible school system.
They keep lowering the standards and pumping out more graduates but only a handful get anything out of it... because they go because they think a piece of paper will "get them a job" or because their parents pressure them to go.
I find it amazingly amusing and painfully sad to hear anyone say "education is useless". Some people and universities may be useless, but certain knowledge and the ability to apply it is not.
I would cite regulation, but I know you will simply ignore it.
