When I was in the 7th grade my teacher told me I was 'college material,' the implication being that not everyone is. She was right on both counts. I was and not everyone is. But times have changed, and pace Obama, change is not always for the better. Part of the change for the worse is that the very phrase 'college material' has fallen into desuetude.
The conceit that everyone can profit from a college education is of course foolish -- which is perhaps why it is is so warmly embraced by liberals, those whose egalitarian instincts are rarely constrained by common sense. It was foolish when college was affordable and it is multiply foolish now when it isn't.
I now hand off to 'Professor X' whose Atlantic piece, In the Basement of the Ivory Tower, is one of the best things I have read on this topic.
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