Also, your secondary education is a joke.. What you do in first year of college we do in secondary education.

I'm not sure how you can even think that, since most European countries don't even require secondary education. In the US, it's mandatory until age 18.

Firstly here you don't need college education for the vast majority of jobs. Why study for 3 years if it's basically useless?

Just by asking this, you're proving the point: You don't see any inherent value in higher education.

In Massachusetts, education has been mandatory since the 1620s. Within 10 years of the Mayflower's landing (with 102 colonists), the colony already had a public school system, printing presses and the first university (Harvard) was being built. We've always been a society that values education, which is why we are today. The prejudice you have of Americans being educated/uncultured is something you've inherited from your country's upper class, who also saw your own ancestors as cattle, but it didn't have any basis in reality then, and still doesn't today.