Secondly, I can’t guess what he would like, but if he were to start college, I’ll bet he would find something that would fit. I know I have a relative who went to college intending to do one thing, changed to something else which didn’t work out for him, but now he is really happily employed in a job he couldn’t have gotten if he didn’t have a college degree. Even if he doesn’t know exactly what he wants, the thing to do is to get started – otherwise it will take forever and he’ll give it up because he’ll have to support you and your six kids and being a student won’t seem like the right thing to do.

I don’t know where he got the $100,000 number, because Harvard only costs $38,000.

Getting a degree is a good idea. The average 25 year old with a college degree makes $20,000 per year more than the average 25 year old without a degree. The gap widens with time. Even if the cost were $100K, the payoff would be worth it.