Former brother There is a misconception that JWs dont like education or further education. This is simply not true.
The truth is JWs are very much pro education, they just think nowadays university is a waste of 4 or so years, its a missalocation of time.
Have you actually watched these jw broadcast. Cedars latest review (31) featured songs, diatribes and re-creations all encouraging "yung wunz" to avoid college and Pioneer. Even cong letters warn people not to go to college to learn a skill useful to Bethel.
If you think they want kids to avoid 4 years at uni only because its a 'waste of time' youre kidding yourself - they have always criticized higher education because they don't want anyone learning critical thinking, the ability to think for oneself and spot the logical fallacies the org employs again and again in their propaganda.
It's never been about 'time' or 'association'. Both of which arguments, by the way, are equally fallacious. Now more than ever a good education is essential and better lifetime friends are made at college/uni than the conditional jw 'friends' who are taught to 'mark' and shun for wearing the wrong trousers.