Students don't seem to be getting much out of higher education.
have been in school
for more than 40 years. First preschool, kindergarten, elementary
school, junior high, and high school. Then a bachelor’s degree at UC
Berkeley, followed by a doctoral program at Princeton. The next step was
what you could call my first “real” job—as an economics professor at
George Mason University.
Thanks to tenure, I have a dream job for life. Personally, I
have no reason to lash out at our system of higher education. Yet a
lifetime of experience, plus a quarter century of reading and
reflection, has convinced me that it is a big waste of time and money.
When politicians vow to send more Americans to college, I can’t help
gasping, “Why? You want us to waste even more?”
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