What’s so special about higher education?

Question

Why is higher education put on a hierarchy? 

Answer 1

Because it's made for neurotypical people. Not for us us who has autism and adhd. Anyways only 25% of college graduates find jobs

Answer 2

Nothing, the people who qualify for higher education, they're special.

Answer 3

Some people it’s useful and for others it is honestly not 

Answer 4

Not sure your meaning of, “put on a hierarchy”, but I’m going to presume you are asking why higher education is given a high status in society. 

Well, there’s the old saying, “knowledge is power”, and there’s certainly truth in it. The combined wisdom and knowledge of mankind is only continued and imparted to the next generation through study and learning, and higher education is where man’s greatest accomplishments in learning are imparted and continued. Just as in the trades, skill and mastery are to be respected - a master carpenter is a storehouse of knowledge to an apprentice and how future craftsmen are created - so, too, is the role of higher education to the future of mankind in academic and technological progress. Thus, status is given and rightly deserved. 

Answer 5

cause you can do more stuff with it

Answer 6

Big dollar salary, big job, big company.