In today’s Pope Center piece, our intern, Adrienne Dunn, writes about the important lessons she’s learned out of the classroom regarding money and time management.

I suspect that this explains a big part of the reason why so many employers demand college degrees for people applying for jobs that have nothing to do with any particular college curriculum — they just want the extra maturity that usually comes with having gotten through college. Requiring applicants to have a college degree acts as a proxy for experience and maturity without risking litigation by setting an arbitrary age limit.