@gentrifiedrose Unfortunately, a lot of US citizens seem to have been sold a bill of goods about education, or to have sold themselves a bill of goods about education, and that results in bad choices to refuse opportunities for further education. In part, this is a fault of an educational system that does not work hard to instill a desire for lifelong education in those it educates. And I often think this is all by design, in order to slot some people as worker bees.