A question that should be discuss not only among parents but also with the kids. Having to go to school, is a privilege and it should be celebrated. Not only the kids can gain systematically structured knowledge as a basic but most importantly to be able to social with other kids.
Yes, going to school is a blessing to earn knowledge and the biggest bonus is to build soft skills with their friends. But the focus here is about the tertiary education.
Yup, even in tertiary it still applies when we talk about softskill. Yet, our edu system does not train us to think critically and enable us to ask ourselves what we really wanna do with our lives.