Three Cheers for the College Drop-Out!

Approximately half our high-school graduates now enroll in college, and more than one quarter of all highschool graduates obtain a college degree. That degree, from most institutions of “higher” learning, has come to mean little. Mr. John Keats, in his penetrating and witty new book The Sheepskin Psychosis (Lippincott) , suggests that some 60 per cent of undergraduates clearly belong in no college at all. Of the remainder, many obtain only minor benefits from four years in the groves of Academe.

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Approximately half our high-school graduates now enroll in college, and more than one quarter of all highschool graduates obtain a college degree. That degree, from most institutions of “higher” learning, has come to mean little. Mr. John Keats, in his penetrating and witty new book The Sheepskin Psychosis (Lippincott) , suggests that some 60 per cent of undergraduates clearly belong in no college at all. Of the remainder, many obtain only minor benefits from four years in the groves of Academe.

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