There is precisely one horror with higher education, and that has everything to do with debt. The only caution is that one needs to figure whether they wish to take on a mortgage-sized debt and not be certain of being able to find a job that will pay it off. Remember, you cannot discharge student loans in bankruptcy. You are stuck with it.
However, that is the ONLY worry with higher education. If you can get it without an unmanageable debt, by all means do it. College can be done piecemeal, as you can afford. You can also go online, doing much research online (just don't expect the credits--you have to actually pay the Rockefeller system for those). Find slightly outdated college textbooks (useless for actual credit) and read those for personal education. Or, to challenge your thinking, try doing in-depth research on a religion that is completely against your beliefs (Christians could try studying Judaism or Islam, or one of the Eastern religions. Or Satanism, if you dare.) Try checking viewpoints totally against your own, researching them to death. And so on.
Yes, the debt is a trap--you get indebted to the Rothschilds in order to pay for the Rockefeller system). But, other than that, I don't see what other horrors one might find in getting a decent education. Whether you have formal education, education by practice and experience (and informal research), or both, I would rather have a doctor that has had decent education (and preferably both a formal education and practice and experience).