In this interview, Prof. Michael Shaughnessy talks with Jackson Toby about his recent book The Lowering of Higher Education.

I recently reviewed Toby’s book here.

In brief, Professor Toby maintains that many American students today go through school and enter college with an entitlement mentality. They lack strong incentives to work hard. Consequently, for all its high costs, our education system on the whole accomplishes remarkably little.