You keep doing it while others stop doing it. Whatever! What's wrong? Mind your own business.
Look, doing nothing is the work of idle hands. We all know that and we must encourage children to do what pleases them and make them happy and it's the same thing with what they want to pursue in higher education. Encourage the children to be more active, be educated and keep them busy to be more productive in the society where they live.
EDUCATION is always a big priority. It's the ladder that leads them to succeed and discover themselves and their potentials to achieve great things.
Education is the stepping stones to future endeavor, the stairs to higher accommodation, to the future, to acquire better employment and higher status in life.
Adding more knowledge and experience is the way to go. Computer knowledge helps to advance to chosen skills and it pays the biggest interest if you are in the I.T. or Information Technology.
Just keep do I.T. Believe in yourself and in your specialized skills. But don't forget that to pursue higher education, to achieve great things requires capital and you only succeed if you attain the happiness and contentment. But then will you be happy if you are full of debts?
Unhappiness and feeling the inadequacy and emptiness means failure. Meaning... you are successful only when you achieved happiness and contentment. That's reality for you. Nonsense? Well, it's really up to you.
I.T. only encourages people with specialized skills. You don't have IT? This is not the place for you. Wow, that's to discourage someone eh? Better to encourage someone to develop skills >> that's the role of teachers and educators not to forget the role of parents to educate their children if teachers can't do it or lack the mental capacity to teach but really it's upon somebody's interest on developing their potentials to be of benefit to others after all KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.