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There aren't enough Lech Wałęsas, Erich Fromms, or Apostle Pauls around who are can support themselves and their families with their skills and their hands, and as well as establish patterns of thought, apologetics, or construct international policy or domestic law.

A society also needs intellectual and spiritual leadership and research, as well as people who can fix your refrigeration unit or landscape your law, and the odds that we're not going to find them at Vo-Tech, motorcycle repair schools, or union hall.

In order for young people to find out if they have intellectual capabilities, a bachelor's is where they start. The guy who is going to design your refrigerator, or even the machinery to construct your refrigerator, starts out learning that The sum of the areas of the two squares on the legs (a and b) equals the area of the square on the hypotenuse, c, of a triangle. And, then he or she goes from there.

And, there is truth in the phrase that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. They don't learn history at motorcycle tech. In order to establish the rules and orders of a republic, one must learn basic fundamentals of clear legal thought and principles, That's what John Houseman meant when he spoke the line said by Professor Kingsfield, “You come in here with a skull full of mush. . . . And if you survive,” he continued in all his stentorious magnificence, “you’ll leave thinking like a lawyer.”

True, you're going to need trades people to construct the institutions of higher learning. But higher learning starts with beginning a bachelor's degree.

In order for young people to find out if they have intellectual capabilities, a bachelor's is where they start

I disagree.

If you don't show it by 8th grade, it ain't happening - or, at least, it ain't happening with enough probability to consume OPM.