... but they don't listen, unfortunately.The siren song is loud and hard to resist: Go to college. Take out loans. Ignore that the price has gone up at 5x the rate of inflation for the last couple of decades, and has been outpacing inflation since the 1980s. Its ok -- you'll get a good job and be able to pay it back.Left out of this is why prices to go to college have accelerated when they should have fallen like a stone. For example, it used to be that computers were hideously expensive and information was in printed form thus a monstrously-large library (and printed copies of said material) were required. Neither is true today; you have more computing power in the palm of your hand than many large mainframes of 40 years ago