'Elitists, crybabies and junky degrees': Educators see growing disdain for universities

I wish I had read Louis L'Amour's autobiography a few decades earlier than I did. He opened with a profound statement to which I could relate: "I quit school...because it was getting in the way of my education." It got in my way but I didn't have the wisdom to see it. I stuck it out. Public school. College. Law school. I learned much in each but now feel that I could have learned so much more without them. Furthermore, in all those years, I can honestly say that not one teacher ever inspired or encouraged me. Indeed, many sought to relegate me to the shop classes. My chief offense was in asking questions, far too many that they were not prepared to answer. So, I learned to answer them for myself and became an autodidact much like L'Amour. I highly recommend you read some other bits of wisdom taken from his autobiography and assembled in this webpage... https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/509736-education-of-a-wandering-man

When you tell every kid in high school that they will never "make" it with out a college degree... Which is complete crap. There are more 6 figure jobs out there available in trade skills. A degree in "Gender studies" is going to get you minimum wage flipping burgers... and a ton of student loan debt. A friend's son went and got a technical education on fiber optics repair. It took him 6 months, he was hired the day he graduated the course, and was making $100,000+ within 6 months of graduating. He works his own hours, and his school was paid off in a couple of months...

I agree with some parts, but I believe there is a lot of bias there as well for instance:

Antenori views former President Barack Obama, a Harvard-educated lawyer who taught at the University of Chicago Law School, as the embodiment of the liberal establishment. Antenori said liberal elites with fancy degrees who have been running Washington for so long have forgotten those who think differently.

President Obama had a law degree, not some fancy elitist degree. We need English majors, like myself, as well as plummers, electricians, and carpenters. I have seen a lot of people viewing higher education as elitist. My father worked in a rubber factory his entire life. Of his four children, three earned Master's degrees. Two were in business and I in English. There seems to be a trend denigrating degrees that may seem "impractical." I teach English, Reading, and English Speakers of Other Languages. Teaching is the profession that teaches all other professions. Yet there has been a trend that diminishes teachers and education as a whole. I hope this trend changes.