The author of this Christian Science Monitor piece, a retired Los Angeles teacher, maintains that college is oversold and counselors should stop pushing academically weak students to try to earn degrees.

I disagree with him, however, when he says that college is “the most convenient place to learn how to learn.” That isn’t necessarily so. In lots of courses students can coast by without doing much. If they haven’t learned how to learn earlier in life, it is not likely to magically occur in college.