North Carolina’s governor Mike Easley has written a book aimed at young children entitled Look Out College, Here I Come. In brightly colored, happy drawings and Dr. Seuss rhymes, the book tells children “You must go to college!”

This is clearly a publicity gimmick for a pol who would like a high post in the next Dem administration, but to the extent that it has any effect on kids, it’s another voice saying that college is for everyone. It will contribute slightly to the labor market problem of a glut of young people with low-grade college degrees and a shortage of good auto mechanics, sheet metal workers, and so on.