Hi (again) COMMOSBY...

Very very true. Many of these old blokes in the bush though hardly educated, can barely read and write, but possessing prodigious intellects in matters of life, living and fully embracing the school of hard knocks.

Moreover, I've always found them most pragmatic with any difficult problems they must address. Preferring the occkam's razor approach when confronting the task of teasing out the broad elements of a problem.

Though there are some vocations in life without a thorougher access to tertiary education, you'd never have the skills to complete your tasks effectively.

Suseonline,
Apart from foreign students they are all running on public subsidies. HECs or post paid loans which never get repaid.
The unpaid and outstanding loans are in the high billions of dollars.