higher education is wonderful—for those who want/need it—but it is NOT a universal need of all—many young athletes in europe go straight into "pro" sports at high school ages—as an educator i have watched way too many young people suffer under our universal "norm" of what every single young person should do while ignoring that one thing those young people KNEW they wanted in life—from sports to art to working on cars—i think the false sports/acadmic connection in higher ed is wrong also—again—the two have nothing to do with each other—using sports to lure people into higher ed hurts both education and sports—
william faulkner, f. scott fitzgerald (to name a couple) both dropped out of higher ed because it was wasting their time—they KNEW they were writers—
