<p>I am dismayed by the trend to view education solely in terms of its rate of financial return. When I went 25 years ago I don’t remember this being the theme song. My starry eyes were full of the knowledge I was going to gain and how much awe I would inspire as a fancy-britches intellectual, not how rich I was going to get. </p>
<p>If making the most money possible is your goal, then that will drive certain choices. If there are things you value more than money, you will be led in other directions. I suppose the breathtaking rise in tuition has driven this-- if I were full-pay, I’d be squinting pretty hard before I parted with a quarter million per child. McGill would start looking really good. The whole system of college pricing/funding is messed up, in my opinion-- reflecting the sharp peeling off of the wealthiest class which those much-maligned Haverford students were trying in their ungraceful way to address. I just hope this doesn’t turn into a system where in order to survive it has to be all about the money, all the time.</p>