The cost of going to college is too high to dismiss the call to justify its value in dollars. As a tuition-payer, I place priority on “utility” over “utopia.” As long as there is utility in education to justify its cost, I welcome the utopia that may also derive from it as an added plus. I don’t think the reverse is equally true. Surprising, since I was myself a philosophy major.
The implication that cultural/social revolutions only comes from educated people doesn’t align with history. Lots of revolutionaries have had no formal education. The desire to improve society is rooted and motivated by real life experiences, whether you have a formal education or not. The intelligentsia has been known to hold back progress…