What's the point of college?

The conservatives say that College is only useful/necessary if you want to be a doctor, engineer, architect, or lawyer. Those courses do require degrees.

But most other degrees like acting, painting, music, history, foreign languages, etc: you can learn those anywhere else.

And what about math, English, science, and social arts? We already learned those in high school.

These days, you can just look up most stuff online.

And most political and history classes don't teach you the whole story. They only tell you one side of the story.

On top of that, they're extremely expensive. It takes an average of twenty years to pay off your debt.

And according to a Georgetown University Study: There are 30 million jobs in the U.S. that pay $55,000 a year that don't require college degrees. And lots of people are successful without having college degrees. Heck, many of them didn't even graduate high school.

So please tell me why College is useful or necessary when plenty of people in this world are thriving without it.