What is College for?

roethlisburger
Fri, 15 Dec 2017 18:33:49 +0000

ChoatieMom:

At some point, we’ve turned college into trade school and a financial proposition.

I’m not sure much has changed. The service academies, technical schools(even vaunted places like CMU) and public universities were all designed from the start as vocational training instead of some life of the mind ideal. Maybe, Williams grads are more career focused than they used to be, but that was always a tiny sliver of the population.