If you have children, a much better investment is to have them install LFS and forbid them from using Windows/Mac, compared to going to college. I did not learn a damn thing in college because I'd been using Linux since age 12.
- 0 - 6 preschool
- 7 - 15 basic school (mandatory)
- 16 - 19 middle school
- 20+ university or polytechnique
And middle school generally divides into: a) 3 year of craft school, workforce after; or b) 4 years of general learning school, no craft knowledge after, expected to go to university after or be clerk, or ..., unspecified; or c) ~4 years technical school in specific craft with "qualified technik" diploma quasi low level "engineer" (have some knowledge to be responsible for things), maybe polytechnique after or uni
At unis typical degrees: master, phd, professor.
So where in such schema collage is located ?
What you call middle school they call high school.
I had the same experience with college. I'd been using Linux for years and learned nothing new about Linux in college. It was nice because the class moved fast and a lot of people who had never Linuxed or CLIed in their lives really struggled to get through it and keep up.