Increase your knowledge, hold off on college.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Brief article

Here is some advice that applies especially to people whose families can't afford to pay for college: you don't have to go immediately from high school to college. I come from a generation that profited immensely from a delay in going to college--we were serving in the military during World War II and found the delay produced greater maturity and greater seriousness about learning. Practically everyone who taught during this period speaks of it as the time when their classes were...