TweetieBird - just give them another 5 years and they'll move on up to saying a 4 year degree is ok, but don't go any further than that!! See...it's a gradual stepping - they can't throw out major changes or they'll scare the flock. So they gradually (brain washing here...) move towards the "new light".
As for the college education discussion going on. I also gave up the chance to go to college out of high school because that was not the thing to do. I was going to get married and pioneer full-time. So here I am, many years later. I have a good career, but am topped out until I go back and get my bachelor's degree.
The only saving grace...my teenage son has seen what happens when you DON'T have a degree and thinks the JW's are crazy for discouraging college. And fortunately, I have been able to save enough to send him so he won't be up against the same walls I am.