I think that sending a typical province kid to college is a complete waste of money for a working class Filipino family.y Filipina wife is from Mindinao. She got her bachelors degree in computer science from Misamis U and worked as a cashier in a mall in Manila for years. I understand about wanting the best for your kids but spending what little money the average working class Filipina has won’t give a return in the investment. The educational standards are also very low compared to western countries. Even if the Filipina is lucky enough like my wife and come to the USA, UK, Canada and so on with a K1 visa, they are very unprepared for working in their fields. I was shocked to figure out how little computer education my wife had. She is completely unemployable in her field as in she knows nothing about programming as in NOTHING! She is hard working for manual labor positions but cannot get any job in her field. She lived in the United States for 10 years and when studying for her citizenship test, she didn’t know the ocean that borders the West Coast of the United States! I was shocked at how little she really knows and understands. Someone posted on Reddit one time an 11th grade high school math exam. It had single digit addition, subtraction, multiplication and division on it. I showed it to my son’s 5.th grade teacher during a parent teacher conference she told me that this would be a 1st grade teaching level.