The Ivies and many of the other supposedly “elite” schools have been coasting for years on their historic prestige while actively abandoning the intellectual disciplines and integrity — the commitment to excellence and the pursuit of truth — that made them great in the first place. They have become academic apostates.
The rationalization is that they are doing this for “social justice;” they conceive of themselves as allocating prestige and rubber stamping credentials that have long been considered gateways to elite careers. This is a fraud against their students, future employers, and down the road, future customers and clients who are now discovering that the Ivy League degree is no longer a symbol of excellence.
By all means, parents should abandon the frauds and actively seek out schools that still maintain standards. They’re getting harder and harder to find, and the Borg is working hard to enforce conformity, but this is still how the counterculture must be built.
Ding, ding, dine - we have a thread winnah!