One more tremendous benefit to studying abroad

It’s that time of year again.
Countless high school students across the northern hemisphere are ceremoniously gliding their tassels from one side of their caps to the other and accepting a rolled-up piece of paper to commemorate the past four years of their lives.
Many of them will be thrust off to university in a few short months, where, at least in the Land of the Free, they’ll be loaded down with tens of thousands of dollars in student debt.
This strikes me as an incredibly cruel (and unnecessary) burden to place on a young person.
For whatever reason, modern society still highly values a university degree, even though they’re ubiquitous.
In 1940, only 4.5% of the US population had a Bachelor’s degree. It was truly something special.

This post was published at Sovereign Man on June 5, 2017.