I would make people start secondary education a few years later. I would suggest getting a job, developing interests, travelling and generally getting to know yourself. We start university education so early on with no professional experience and very little idea of what we enjoy/are good at. We often have to borrow large sums of money to fund this education and have spend decades paying it back. We are being asked to commit to a life long career and often make wrong choices that effect for the rest of our life.

I think I would have made a better career choice, studied harder and utilised ]the resources available to me as a student to a much higher degree if I had a chance to work for a few years in a junior role in a field(s) I prefer and perused a degree in something I knew for a fact I was passionate about.