Today I’d like to make the case for earning a bachelor’s degree. Four-year degrees, as they’re called, are usually a bachelor of arts or science, depending on one’s discipline.

And they’ve come under fire in recent years, for everything from sky-high tuition to lack of relevance for modern life.

Much of the criticism is deserved and I don’t plan to defend the missteps of higher education. Nor do I have a reflexive admonition about how these degrees lead to higher lifetime earnings or better career prospects. Higher than what? Better than what? These studies have never sat well with me, but even less today.

By contrast, vocational training is finally having a moment, as are apprenticeships and other pathways into careers in the trades. This is good news, but I hate to see the pendulum sw

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