Here is an interesting article. This advice is sounding better and better:
Posted by boss at January 3, 2004 10:25 AM
You can always go to college later, at age 25 -- you'll have a head start on all your contemporaries for one thing, in that you'll be able to find your own ass with your two hands -- but the training you learn as a teenager and in your early twenties will make you less likely to face catastrophe when, at age 35, your systems programming job is moved to Sumatra or Hong Kong. You'll be more self-reliant, and instead of being a corporate drone in the Dilbert environment, you might even be your own boss.