Your education is what you make of it. I have more respect for someone who reads a thousand books and researches things on their own than for those who attend a pricey college and whine about it.
You can also blame for-profits for corporatization. There is where you can pay a lot of money and get very little in the way of 'education.'
I'm proud of my liberal arts education because I learned so much. Sometimes without even meaning to.
Our community colleges have had to improve, and have done so with innovation and vision. No longer are our cc students pooh-poohed for having a lesser education.
Different strokes for different folks: but keep in mind that buyer beware...and huge promises with little return IS noticed and fought against, while walking that tight rope of not messing with free enterprise.