...but it is always the other guy's kid who shouldn't attend college. Never my kid.
It is easy to say that is not for everyone...but how do you deny a college education to people? Do you have kids take a test in the 8th grade, like the Germans do, that puts them on a career path that they can't get off?
We have a situation now where 4/5 of kids graduate from high school, two-thirds of high-school grads enroll in some sort of college, and just over half get their degrees. That's a lot of self-selecting going on.
Link: http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2016/01/where-are-all-the-high-school-grads-going/423285/