Even though it is hard to fulfil, I would say that before getting a higher education, a person must try to earn money on a regular job. A job that is not connected with any relative. Because working in a company that your parents own, or work with them is different from working alone. When a youngster feel with his skin how not easy it is to earn, his approach to education will be different. I have seen many students that go to university (specially those who aim to get bachelor degree) do that only to spend time, to get a paper in the end and enter adult world with empty head.