Rebecca Mead, writing in The New Yorker, asks aloud during this graduation season whether a college education is worth the expense. According to the economists, it isn't, unless you major in something like accounting or business. For those in the truth-and-beauty fields, forget it: take the job today you would otherwise take in four years, only with tuition debt the size of a mortgage.
The unexamined assumption is that it's better to have money than an education. Mead demurs, gently. My own view is that the economic utilitarians have carried the day so that what now usually passes as a college education really isn't worth the expense. Accounting! My distinct impression is that the top colleges are just white-collar trade schools. All education now is vocational. What are you going to school for? It's assumed that the answer is to prepare for a profession or a particular line of work. Great. Go to college, get a job, spend the rest of your life buying the stuff advertised on TV during golf tournaments. You'd be a sucker to go to college to catch the beat of a different drum, because, nowadays, there's only one drum beating.
Mead's colleague George Packer has more.
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