Please let me speak as someone who has been to college four times. College is increasingly worthless. The classes I took in 1974 at American University had rigor and depth. The classes I took at the University of Oregon in 1984 were well taught, for the most part, although there was a trend toward grade inflation. The classes I took in 1996 to get my teaching certificate were laughable in their simplicity. The graduate course I took at the University of Alaska - Fairbanks last year was ideogical garbage taught by a person whose apparent qualifications were left-wing bias and hatred against white men. Guess where I paid the most per credit?
Students sometimes come to me and ask about college. I warn them about the ideologues and the waste of money.
All this makes me appreciate Milton Friedman and the concept of using free-market thinking to drive quality education. However, right now, the colleges are elite institutions, not unlike the monasteries of the Middle Ages. I think our grandchildren will consider things like gender studies in the same way we think about clerics arguing about how many angels dance on the head of a pin. Time for a Reformation, eh?
Well put!