Dirty Jobs’ Mike Rowe on the High Cost of College (Full Interview)

“‘If we are lending money that ostensibly we don’t have to kids who have no hope of making it back in order to train them for jobs that clearly don’t exist, I might suggest that we’ve gone around the bend a little bit,’ says TV personality Mike Rowe, best known as the longtime host of Discovery Channel’s Dirty Jobs. He stesses that he’s ‘got nothing against college’ but believes it’s a huge mistake to push everyone in the same direction regardless of interest or ability. Between Mike Rowe Foundation and Profoundly Disconnected, a venture with heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar, Rowe is hoping both to help people find new careers and publicize what he calls ‘the diploma dilemma.'”