Why do some people believe that if you don't go to college you are lazy, poor, or a loser?

Because now days, most people think of when you say the word successful is going to college and working. But they don't stop to think that you can still have a very successful life and still know the same knowledge as someone with a little piece of paper saying ___ degree without paying thousands of dollars a year. There are many happy people who aren't rich and didn't go to college.