I graduated Indiana University with a degree in History.  Three years later, armed with three years of real life experience, I went to UNF and got a degree in Accounting, so I could get a decent job. 

 

Based on my personal experience, I think it would be very helpful if every student were required to spend at least one year out of school before they went to college.  It would give them some life experience.  It would teach them the value of a good job where they can make some money.   I think many more of them would choose more useful majors. 

 

Just drifting through high school, and then through college, you don't learn much about real life.  Education doesn't occur only in a classroom.  That's why that one year between high school and college, either working or in the military, would be extremely helpful.  Let them decide their major after a year of doing manual labor on a construction site. 

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