Phi Beta Cons

College Isn’t a Public Good

So argues Tim Worstall, a Brit who writes often for Forbes. One of the arguments we hear all the time from the higher ed establishment is that college is a “public good” and we won’t get enough people into and through college unless we subsidize it. In this piece, Worstall shows what is wrong with that claim.

George Leef is the the director of editorial content at the James G. Martin Center for Academic Renewal. He is the author of The Awakening of Jennifer Van Arsdale: A Political Fable for Our Time.
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