The Decline of College

Victor Davis Hanson  "For the last 70 years, American higher education was assumed to be the pathway to upper-mobility and a rich shared-learning experience.
"The result was a more skilled workforce and a competent democratic citizenry. That ideal may still be true at our flagship universities, with their enormous endowments and stellar world rankings.
"Yet most elsewhere, something went terribly wrong with that model. Almost all the old campus protocols are now tragically outdated or antithetical to their original mission. 

"Young Americans for four years took a common core of classes, learned to look at the world dispassionately, and gained the concrete knowledge to make informed arguments logically."...

Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution,Stanford University, and the author, most recently, of “The Father of Us All: War and History, Ancient and Modern”