I agree with this, but if you are eighteen, smart and minimally motivated then everybody tells you it is your only option. Due to the lack of alternative avenues to success, it often is the only option.
Looking back, I sometimes wish I had waited a couple of years after high school and then attended a public institution. The older I get, the more I think that four-year liberal arts colleges are a kind of racket.
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Oh, the shit I could talk on this one. I've spend most of the time since I got out of Knox working in higher ed, and I agree with a good bit of where the article's going, too.
Don't regret Knox, per se, though I definitely treated it like dilettante's ball.
Yeah, I don't regret Knox. At least half of my bestest friends in the world I met there. The education was very good. But while the people there were and are so awesome, I don't think of the institution offering anything so much more valuable than a public college or university that rationalizes the much higher tuition. I guess that it's status, what economists call "signaling," etc.
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