Another entry in why college is not necessary comes from a retired teacher writing in the Christian Science Monitor. The writer makes many of the points George has made, but adds an interesting new twist: Young people who are not really equipped to benefit from college, but feel they have to go and wind up dropping out, face a feeling of disappointment with themselves for not doing something they needn’t have tried in the first place.

I have felt something similar about this new thing where grammar school kids are supposed to be working toward the year of their college graduation. You might have a ten-year-old kid with a T-shirt with something like Class of 2020 written on it. I understand the need to motivate, but something tells me this is going a little overboard.