I loved college. It was there that I understood I had some capabilities that set me apart from most. Of course my degree, a masters in Mathematics, was largely useless, I still felt powerful enough to start my own business and to thrive from there.
One of my daughters went to Sterling college. There, she learned skills I thought were fairly useless (such as shearing sheep, spinning yarn, and knitting) but she has gone on to become a very successful carpenter. She needn't have spent a couple hundred thousand on her education to learn those skills, but she was exposed to the trade there, and I do believe having that degree looks good on her resume. She also got a extremely liberal mindset there, the real problem in higher ed these days. Sometimes we battle over lifestyle choices.