Charles Murray, the W.H. Brady Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, recently published a book "Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality", concluding that too many people are going to college. An adaptation of his essay was published in the Wall Street Journal Op Ed on Aug 13, 2008. He claimed that almost everyone should get vocational training beyond high school, but the number of students who want, need, or can profit from four years of residential education at the college level is a fraction of the number of young people who are struggling to get a degree. America has set up a standard known as the BA, stripped it of its traditional content, and made it an artificial job qualification. Then we stigmatize everyone who doesn’t get one. For most of America’s young people, today’s college system is a punishing anachronism. Do you agree?

 

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