Robert Wenzel, editor of EconomicPolicyJournal.com, gets at the truth, writing, “The wholesale creation of degree factories, as a result of government sponsored programs, has diluted the value of a college education. 1. Because many more have them and 2. The quality of knowledge by those who have graduated has declined dramatically.”

Wenzel is right. Because of government interference in education (from top to bottom), we now have huge numbers of college graduates with less knowledge about the world and less in the way of basic skill than the typical ninth grader used to. They keep hearing that a college degree is the ticket to a good career. For a few, it is, but for many others, college is just an expensive detour before landing the sort of mundane, low-skill job that they could have done while they were in high school.