"One way to test the truth of the proposition that college isn't worth it is to observe elite behavior. Are applications to Stanford dropping? Is Harvard going begging? Are the Fortune 500 recruiting at public high schools across America?
I didn't think so.
The whole enterprise just smells to me like the latest variation on "let's privatize Social Security" or "let's replace Medicare with vouchers." It's the wealthy and their worshippers sloughing off any social obligation, basically dropping the ladder behind them. If that weren't the case, if they actually believed what they said, I'd expect to see the best and brightest from Choate and Philips Exeter eschewing college and doing startups or joining the military instead. Um, no."
