The American consciousness can’t seem to shake its preoccupation with college. This year alone, the admissions policies of the Ivy League, and President Biden’s efforts to cancel student-loan debt, have taken over the public discourse. We use adolescence to prepare for college, push young adults to take out massive loans to attend it, and treat it as a core marker of identity well into adulthood.
As such, the progressive demand that college be free for all should come as no surprise. The economic case against this idea has already been ably made. But the very demand for free college has baked into it a false assumption that is worth refuting: that a college education plays an irreplaceable role in intellectual development.
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