I was not raised in the borg, I was already an adult with a degree and a career when I got sucked in. However, I do have three kids and I saw the pressure other parents were put under to keep their kids from going to university. There was one young sister who did go away to university, and she came home with a worldly husband and step son. The only other family to buck the trend sent their son to uni for an engineering degree, and he's quite successful in that career now, and none of that family attends meetings anymore. So the local elders use that as confirmation that university education is bad and will destroy your spirituality. Also, the COBE never went to university and he owns his own business selling industrial supplies and equipment. He's made good money at it, upper middle class lifestyle - ski trips, cruises, eating out all the time - so he thinks anyone can do just fine without a degree. He didn't let either of his kids go to a regular university - his daughter went to cosmetology school and his son went to a 2 year technical school for graphic design.
I always told my kids that a good education was important and that they should choose something that they liked and that paid well. I guess in a few more years we would have been the black sheep of the hall when our oldest went away to uni.
Finally Awake (of the too lazy to switch logins class)