I think Hanson is wrong here. It is quite conceivable that any given student going to St. John's instead of Yale would come out with a better education than if he had chosen the Ivy, but the talent pool that Yale gets to pick from "did better" on average in high school and they are likely to continue doing so after they get their four year degree.
ML/NJ
My daughter is at David Lipscomb...which is pretty conservative.
Most of the faculty are right wingers....problem is most of the kids are not.
They are kumbaya love thy neighbor good works types sent their by their folks...for 32k a year.
my daughter is fairly right wing though....
the academics are rigorous though
“I think Hanson is wrong here...”
I think you’ve got it wrong here ....he’s referring to how the graduates from Hillsdale or St. Johns’s perform in the real world. As opposed to a Yale graduate.
I agree with his proposition. The Ivies select from pool of trained spaniel’s that perform well in an academic/academicized environment.
A reasonable proposition. But not necessarily a correct one.
The Yale entering class may well be superior to Hillsdale's. But what comes out four years later is, on average, probably less educated.
But it's a sterile argument. You are never "hiring the class", you're hiring the individual. In that regard, I've had equal success with undergraduates from Princeton...and Bradley...and Oklahoma State.