Stay in school, get a degree, get a job, etc. However much there may have been a correlation between having a university degree and getting a good job, this is not a causal relationship. It was a social and cultural norm,

It goes even deeper. The various levels of education (non-HS degree, HS degree, Vocational college, university, post-graduate ...) are still the central pegs for the knowledge-level factors embedded in every job evaluation scheme, and therefore deeply informs the organizational structure of almost every organization over the size of say 100 people.

The assumptions about knowledge and how they are applied to the definition, measurement and assessment of work are very very deeply embedded in our organizational structures and beliefs about how things function.